A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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code de justice militaire, militaire, (mil.)
military law;
militaire penal, articles of war.
co-efficient, m., coefficient;
balistique, (ball.) ballistic coefficient;
economique, (steam, mach., etc.) efficiency;
de securite pour la charge, (cons.) (load)
coefficient of safety;
de securite contre la rupture, (cons. ) (breaking)
factor of safety.
couir, m., heart; heartwood, or heart of a tree;
& . to the interior (as of tempering);
courbe en , (mach., etc.) heart, heart wheel;
de croisement, (r. r.) frog;
en , heart-shaped (cam, etc.);
excentrique en , (mach.) heart wheel; heart-
cam;
plaque
de , (r. r.) frog, frog plate;
plateau de , (in timber) the diametral slab
containing the heart of the tree;
roue en , (mach.) heart wheel;
de tour, (mach.) heart-shaped driver or
carrier.
coffin, m., (mil. slang) peculiar sort of desk in
use at the Polytechnique (so called from the
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inventor, General Coffin).
coffrage, m., planking, sheeting, sheathing (as,
min., of a gallery); crib, cribwqrk;
planches de , (min.) plank lining.
coflre, m., box, chest, trunk; (min.) minechamber
(obs.); (fort.) flanking casemate,
caponier; (siege) epaulment, parapet, of a siege
battery;
d'amarrage. mooring buoy; shore fast;
d'avant-tram, (art.) lumber-chest;
& avoine, (cav.) grain-chest;
de contrescarpe, (fort.) counterscarp gallery,
flanking gallery in the angle of the ditch;
sort of flanking casemate;
defensif, (.fort.) caponier;
demi , (fort.) German name for single
caponier;
d'encaissement, v. de la voie:
flanquant, (fort.) flanking casemate or
works (in modern works); caponier, especially
an infantry caponier in a short ditch;
sort of blockhouse for flanking the ditch;
flanquant double, (fort.) double caponier,
etc.;
flanquant simple, (fort.) single caponier,
etc.;
-de flanquement, (fort.) sort of caponier,
v. flanquant;
-fort, strong-box, money-chest;
de fortification, (fort.) obsolete flanking work
in the ditch of a bastion; German name for
double caponier;
de mine, (mil. min.) obsolete name for minechamber;
& munitions, (art., sm. a.) ammunition
chest;
& outils, tool-chest (traveling-forge, etc.);
& vapeur, (steam) steam-chest;
de la voie, (r. r.) ballast-bed of a railway.
coflrer, v. a., to plank,
to line with planks, to
sheathe (as a mine gallery, a shaft, etc.).
coffret, m. T small chest, box;
d'affut, (art.) trail-chest;
d'avant-train, (art.) limber-box;
de caisson, (art.) caisson- or body-box:
de'cartouchiere, (sm. a.) v. de gioerne;
d'essieu, (art.) axle-box; (in gen.) navebox
of a wheel;
defleche, (art.) trail-chest;
de giberne, (sm. a.) leather body of a cartridge
box;
marchepied,
boards;
(art.) small chest under foot-
d'outils, tool chest;
de rempart, (siege, etc.) ammunition box.
cogiifie, f., ax;
de bucheron, felling-ax.
cogner, y. a., to strike on a nail, bolt, etc., to
drive it; to wedge together.
coiflage, m., (art.) fuse-cap.
colfle, f., cap, cover, hood; guard: any strong
metal plate covering or joining adjacent
parts, or any parts; sling or strap (e. g., on
a gin, to take an additional block); inside
band of a hat, etc.; (unif.. Fr. a.) white
linen attachment (manchon) to which the
havelock is fixed (Algiers and Tunis), (in
France) white cover, marking the enemy
at fall maneuvers; (art.) soft nose or cap for
a. p. projectiles;
d'armons, (art.) futchel strap;
de culasse, (art.) breech cover;
d'ecouvillon, (art.) sponge-cover;
exterieure. (unif.) cap- or headgear-cover;
de fusee, (art.) fuse-cap;
inter ieure, (unif.) band of a cap or of other
headgear;
de lisoir, (art.) bolster-plate;
de lunette, (art.) pintle-plate;
de manoeuvres, (unif.) v. supra, coiffe under
(unif., Fr. a.);
d'obturateur, (art.) obturator guard;
projectile to,
, (art.) soft-nosed or capped a. p.
shell;
de sassoire, (art., etc.) sweep-bar plate;
de
plate;
sellette, (art.) bolster-plate, pintle-
de voice, (art.) muzzle-cover.
coiffer, v. a., to cap, fit over, anything;
la chevre, (art.) to apply or fit a sling to a
gin;
la fusee, (art.)
fuse.
to put a cap (coiffage) on a
coiffure,
gear.
f., generic term for head cover, head-
coin, m., wedge, quoin; corner, angle, solid
angle; die; (hipp.) corner tooth; (art.)
chock; the Krupp, or any other similar
breech-closing wedge; (in timber) the slab
or part of a log lying between the plateau
and the plateau de cozur, qq. v.; (in pi.) screwdies;
d'anet, (sm. a.) nose of the cockingpiece,
cocking-stud; (art.) chock or stop (at
the end) of a traverse circle; small recoilchecking
wedge;
d'arrimage, stowing, securing, wedge or
chock;
arrondir les s, (man.) to cut corners in riding-
hall;
& canon, (art.) gun-chock (in the transportation
of guns);
de collier de guindage, (pont.) balk-stirrup
wedge;
cylindro-prismatique,
matic wedge;
(art.) cylindro-pris-
bfendre, ordinary splitting wedge;
de fermeture, (art.) breech-closing wedge;
guide, (art.) sledge-chock (transportation
of guns);
de guindage, (pont.) side-rail wedge;
U manche, calking-iron; (art.) chock;
de mire, (art.) elevating quoin (obs.);
h poignee, wedge with handle;
de pointage,
v. de mire;
pnsmatique double (simple), (art.) double
(single, flat) wedge;
de recul, (art.) recoil-checking wedge (siege,
etc., guns);
de retour en batterie, (art.) v.
roulant, (mach.) rolling wedge;
de recul;
sabot, (art.) wheel-chock, drag-shoe;
sabot elevateur, (F. m. art.) recoil chock.
coincer, v. a., to wedge, to jam; v. r., to jam (as
bullets in the magazine).
coite, f., launching-cradle, way;
de vindas, check of a windlass.
coke, m., coke, gas coke.
col, m., neck, collar; (unif.) stock; (top.) saddle,
pass, col;
de cygne, (art.) "swan neck" (siege carriage);
(mach., etc.) goose-neck.
colback, m., (unif.) colback, busby; (mil. slang)
raw recruit.