A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

emploi 150 enchevetrure
emploi, retrait d' , placing
on the unemployed
list;
sans , (adm.) unexpended (of an appropria-
emplombage,
bore.
m., (sm. a.) leading of the
emplomW, p. p., (art.) lead-coated (projectile);
(sm. a.) leaded.
emplomber, v. a. r., (sm. a.) to lead, to become
leaded.
employe, m., employee, clerk;
dans Us eaux grasses, (mil. slang) clerk of
the commissary department;
militaire, (Fr. a.) a functionary of the military
establishment (e. g., officier d'administration,
adjoint du genie, etc.), regarded as
an officer, but having no assimilation of
rank.
seize with the
empoigner, v. a., to grasp, gripe,
nand.
empoise, f., (mach.) bearing, brass, journal.
empoisser, v. a., to pitch.
emport, m., d'effets, (mil. law) theft of arms,
equipment, etc., by a deserter.
emporter, v. a. r., to carry off; (man.) to bolt,
run away; (mil.) to carry, take, by assault or
storm;
d'assaut, (mil.) to take, carry by assault,
by storm;
-la victoire, (mil.) to conquer, to win the
victory.
empreinte,
priming
bore;
f., impression, imprint,
(paint); (art.) impression
stamp;
of the
d la gutta-percha, (art.) gutta-percha impression
of the bore.
emprisonnement, m .
, imprisonment ;
cellulaire, solitary confinement.
emprisonner, v. a., to imprison, confine.
enarbrer, v. a., to rivet, fix, a wheel, a pinion,
on its shaft.
en-bataille, m., (art., cav.) the "into line."
en-batterie, m., (art.) the "in battery."
encablure, f. , cable-length.
encadenasser, v. a., to padlock.
encadre, p. p., framed; (mil.) side by side
(with other units, as, a company, a battalion,
etc., opposed to isole, q. v.); officered;
(of young, inexperienced soldiers) supported
(framed in) by experienced men on
each side; (man.) well under one (of the
horse);
combat , (mil.) combat carried on by troops
side by side;
troupes bien es, (mil.) well -officered
troops.
encadrement, m., frame, framing; (mil.) action
of encadrcr, of giving a troop unit its cadres,
(hence) officering; position of troops, having
other troops on the flanks; (art.) in ranging,
operation of getting the target between a
"short" and an "over," (hence) fork, zone,
bracket.
encadrer, v. a., to frame, frame in; (mil.) to
give a troop unit its cadres, (hence) to
officer; to enroll; to place a body of troops
between other bodies, (hence) to support;
to support, encourage, young soldiers by
placing them between veterans; (inf.) to
inclose (said of corporals on the flanks of
their half-sections); (man.) to get a horse
well under one, under the control of the
legs;
le but, (art.) in ranging, to get the target
between a "short" and an "over"."
encaissage, m., (sm. a.) packing of rifles, etc.,
in arm chests, etc.
encaisse, f., cash in hand.
encaisse, p. p., boxed; (of a road, river, etc.)
with steep banks, embanked, between
banks; commanded by heights (as, a valley).
encaisse, m., cutting (of a road, railway); part
of a river between steep banks.
encaissement, m., boxing, packing in a case
or box; receipt and deposit of money, funds;
(of roads, etc.) embankment; state of being
embanked; bed, base;
faire un chemin par , to bed, trench, and
gravel a road.
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encaisser, v. a., to box, pack in cases or boxes;
to receive and deposit money; to embank
(a river, etc.); to lay a base or bed for a
road.
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encampane,
a., canon , (art.) a gun whose
chamber is a truncated cone (obs.).
encan, m., auction; vendre, vente, & I' to
,
sell, sale, by auction.
encapeler, v. a., (cord.) to make fast.
encapuchonnS, a., (hipp.) with head curved in
(of ahorse).
encapuchonner, v. r., (hipp.) to bend, curve,
the head down.
encartouchage, (expl.) operation of making up
into cartridges.
encartoucher, v. a., (expl.) to make up into
cartridges.
en-cas, m., anything prepared and kept for an
emergency;
mobile, (mil. r. r., Fr. a.) railroad trains
(two or more) on each line of transport, stored
with supplies and ammunition, and kept
ready for use in emergencies.
eiicastelts a., (hipp.) hoof-bound; narrowheeled.
encasteler, v. r., (hipp.) to be, become, hoofbound
or narrow-heeled.
encastelure, f . , (hipp.) state of being hoof-bound
or narrow-heeled.
encastrement, m., action, operation, of fitting,
bedding, or letting in. one part into
another; any bed, groove, hole, cut, mortise,
recess, seat, into which some part or
piece is or is to be let or fitted; (sm. a.) barrel
groove;
d'affut, (art.) trunnion bed;
de garniture, (sm.a.) band shoulder;
ordinaire, (art.) firing-bed;
de plaque de couche, (sm. a.) butt-plate
seat;
de la platine, (sm. a.) lock mortise;
h ressort, spring seat and catch;
de route, (art.) traveling-bed; traveling trunnion
bed;
de tir, (art.) firing-bed, firing trunnion
bed;
des tourillons, (art.) trunnion bed.
encastrer, v. a., to fit, let in; to set in a groove,
etc.; to bed in.
encaustique, f., polishing-wax for leather parts
of military equipment.
enceinte, f. , fence, inclosure; (fort.) enceinte, body
of the place;
& fronts accoles, (fort.) continuous en-
ceinte;
interieure, (fort.) enceinte within the main
enceinte;
morcelee, (fort.) discontinuous enceinte;
de surete, (fort.) sort of interior line to prevent
the enemy from swarming into the place
on the heels of the defeated garrisons or the
outer line.
encenser, v. n., (hipp.) to throw the head up
and down.
enchatnement, m., chain, links; series, concatenation.
enchalner, v. a., to chain, link, connect.
enchalnure, f., chain, chainwork.
enchaper, v. a., to inclose in a shell (as, a pulley);
(expl., etc.) to case (a powder barrel, a pass
enchapure, f., (harn.) buckle loop, end loop
enchasser, v. a., to insert, set in.
enchere, f., bidding, auction;
mettre aux s, to put up for sale by auction;
vendre d, V , aux s, to sell by auction;
vente & V , aux s, sale by auction.
enchevaucher, v. a., (carp.) to rabbet.
enchevauchure, f., (carp.) rabbeting; (cons.)
overlapping of roofing slates, tiles, shingles.
encnevfitrer, v. a. r., (harn.) to halter; to become
tangled in the noose, halter, etc.; to get a foot
over the halter; (cons.) to connect or join two
joists by a trimmer.
enchevfitrure, f., (hipp.) halter-