A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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Gcouvillon-refouloir, sponge and rammer staff;
tete d' v. boite d' .
Gcouvtllonner, v. a., (art.) to sponge, sponge out.
Ccran, m., screen, fire-screen; (mil.) screen of troops,
e. g., cavalry screen; (r. /. art.) deflector (for
empty cases); shield; (ball.) screen for direct
measurement of ordinates of trajectory; (t. p.)
target;
manipulateur, screen or cut-off (as, of a signaling
apparatus) ;
de surete, (mil) cavalry screen.
Ccrasement, m., crushing, crushing in; collapse,
iUin, destruction;
eprcuve d' , crushing test.
Ccraaer, v. a., to crush, bruise; (fig.) to ruin, run
over; to overwhelm (as, by artillery fire);
moulin d , crushing mill.
Scrasite, f., (expl.) ecrasite.
6cr6moire, f., (artif.) rubber, grinder, scraper for
the measuring table.
CcrSter, v. a. (art.) to destroy, cut down, the top of
a wall, a parapet; by artillery fire; (fort.) to
pierce (a wall for loopholes) ;
une cote, to. lower, cut down, a slope;
une route, to cut down a road.
Ccrevlsse, f., crab; can hooks; large double hooks
for raising heavy weights;
de rempart, (cot;, slang) foot soldier, "mud
crusher."
(teriture, f., writing, handwriting; (in pi.) papers,
official papers; (top.) legends, any written or
printed indications on a map;
commis aux s, clerk;
deliee. fine handwriting;
s exteneures, ( Fr. a.) accounts and papers kept
by a troop unit, or by an establishment, with
the state;
s interieures, ( Fr. a.) all accounts, papers, not
included under s exterieures;
moulee, engrossed handwriting (as, in legends
on maps); engrossing hand;
a pkins, full, heavy, writing.
Ccrivain, m., writer; clerk; purser.
crou, m., nut, screw-box, screw-nut, female
screw; collar; (arfm.) prison register; (art.) holding-down
nut; (sm. a.) cocking-nut;
aile, wing-nut;
d anses, journaled screw-box;
& assemblage, (art., etc.) assembling nut;
billet d' , (mil. com.) order of confinement;
borgne, (mach., etc.) follower, cap follower;
boulon d , coupling bolt;
bouton , (sm. a.) cocking nut, cocking piece;
d branches, wing-nut, thumb-nut;
d cannelures, grooved nut;
d chapeau, (art.) wheel-nut, axle-nut;
de culasse. (art.) base ring, breech bushing;
d douille, (art.) brake-nut;
frein, (art.) locking-nut;
de frein, (art.) brake-nut (on axle of some car-
riages);
d gorge, grooved nut;
d molette, milled nut;
- -moteur, feed-nut;
ordre d' , (mil. adm.) order of corps commander
to transfer a prisoner from regimental
to civil prison:
doreilles, wing-nut, thumb-nut;
pignon, (art., etc.) pinion-nut;
d pivot, v. d tourillons:
d poignee(s) set-nut and handle;
de pression, set-nut, jam nut;
pnsonnier, (mach.) stationary nut or female
screw;
de rappel, (mach., etc.) adjusting-nut;
de r eg luge, (mach.) adjusting-nut;
regulateur, regulating, adjusting, nut (as in
some electric lamps);
de serrage, clamping-nut, clamp-nut, set-nut;
(art.) closing cap screw;
d six pans, hexagonal nut;
d tenons, (art.) pin-wheel (Hotchkiss revolving
cannon);
Ccrou d tourillons, (art.) crosshead elevating
nut; de la vis-culasse,
de vis de culasse, (art.)
base-ring, breech bushing;
de la vis de pointage, (art.) elevating-screw
box.
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ecrouer, v. a., to enter (name, cause of confinement,
etc.) upon the prison register; to imprison.
Ccroui, a., (met.) cold-hammered, springy.
Ccrouir, v. a. r., (met.) to cold-hammer, to
hammer-harden; to harden by cold working,
as by rolling, drawing, etc.; to make
crystalline from fibrous by hammering; to
make brittle by hammering; to become
springy.
Ccrouissage, m., (met.) cold hammering, hammer
hardening, cold hardening.
Ccrouissement, m., (met.) v. ecrouissage.
ecroulement, m., falling in, or down, giving wav
(of a building).
Ccrouler, v. r., to crumble in, to fall in; to give
way; to fall into decay.
e'en, m., shield; escutcheon.
ecuanteur, m., disk of a wheel.
ecubier, m., (nav.) hawse hole.
ecueil, m., rock, reef, sand bank; (fig.) danger.
ecueiie, f., porringer; socket, capstan socket.
6cu!er, v. r., to run down at the heel (of a
shoe).
Ccume, f., foam, froth, lather; scum, dross;
defonte, (met.) Msh.
ecumer, v. a. n., to froth, foam, lather; to
skim.
ecumoire, L, (met.) skimmer.
ecurage, m., scouring, cleaning.
6curer, v. a., to scour, clean.
ecureuil, m., (powd.) granulating cylinder of wire
gauze.
ecurie, f., stable (esp., stable for a horse);
stabling; (nav.) horse boat, horse transport.
ecusson, m., escutcheon, scutcheon; (sm. a.) trigger
plate (obs.);
d'attribut, (unif.) the piece of cloth on which
are sewed the insignia, the number of the
regiment;
d'epauktte, (unif.) pad of an epaulet;
d numero, (unif.) shield or piece of cloth
with regimental number.
ficuyer, m., squire; horseman, rider; good horseman;
riding master; equerry;
grand , grand equerry.
edenter, v. a., to break the teeth (of a saw,
etc.).
edification, f., act of building, of construction.
edifice, m., edifice, building, pile (of buildings).
edifier,v.a.,tobuild.
6dit, m., edict.
eduction, f., (steam) eduction, exhaustion.
effaccr, v. a., to efface, expunge, rub out, strike
out, scrape out.
eflacure,
out.
f., erasure, obliteration, blotting
effectif, a., effective.
effectif, m., (mil.) strength, numbers, i. e., the
total strength, present and absent; (in pi.)
numbers;
budgetaire, budgetary strength, numbers as
fixed by the annual budget;
de guerre, war strength, total number on
war footing.
moyen, mean daily strength of the year
elapsed, i. e., the numbers obtained by dividing
the total number of days present for
duty (men and horses) by 365-6;
de paix, du pied de paix, peace strength,
footing;
du pied
strength.
de guerre, war footing, war
effet, m., effect, execution, result, consequence;
(mach., etc.) performance; (in pi, mil.) kit,
outfit, articles of equipment;
it I'
, (top. drawing) so as
forms;
to show surface
brisant, (expl.) explosive strength, effect;
calorific[ue, calorific effect, duty;