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etalon autorise, (hipp.) in France, a stallion recognized
by the government as suited to maintain
(i. e., not to improve) the standard reached
(owner gets no bounty);
& coulisse, sliding caliper scale;
& coulisse et & vernier, standard sliding calipers;
d' .standard;
departmental, (hipp.) in France, a recognized
stallion (one to each departement);
d'essai, (hipp.) v. boute-en-train;
de haras, (hipp. ^stallion attached to abreeding
establishment;
national, (hipp.) in France, a stallion belonging
to the state;
prime, v. apvrouve;
rouleur, (hipp.) traveling stallion, "tramp"
stallion.
etalonnage, m., gauging, verification, standardizing,
comparison with a standard; stamping
(after comparison with a standard); (elec.) calibration;
du pas, (mil.) determination of the average
length of one's pace or step (distances used in
France, 10 meters and 100 meters).
etalonnement, m., v. etalonnage.
Ctalonner, v. a. n., to gauge, standardize, compare
with a standard; to stamp (after comparison
with a standard); (elec.) to calibrate; (hipp.) to
serve;
le pas, (mil.) to find the average length of
one's pace or step.
gtamage, m., operation of tinning; tinned work;
galvanique, galvanizing;
de glace, silvering (of a looking-glass);
au zinc, zinking.
Ctambot, m., (nay.) sternpost.
etamer, v. a., to tin; to galvanize;
une glace, to silver (a looking-glass).
Ctameur, m.. tinner.
etamine, f., bolting-cloth; bunting; a flag proper
(as distinguished from the head, tassels, etc.);
de crin, haircloth.
etampage, m., swaging; operation of stamping,
punching, or beating out, of giving a
cylindrical or truncated-cone shape to anything.
Ctarnpe, f., swage, swage-tool, swage-block, stamp;
bottom tool; qje, boss, drift, mandrel; (fan.)
horseshoe punch;
dessous d'une , bottom swage, bottom tool,
lower die;
dessus d'une , top swage, upper tool, upper
die, swage hammer;
inferieure, v. dessous d'une ;
ronde, rounding tool;
superieure. v. dessus d'une .
(Stamper, v. a., to swage; to stamp out, beat out;
to shape, punch, emboss; to drift, open out;
to- give a cylindrical or truncated-cone shape
to anything; (fan.) to punch holes in a horseshoe;
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gras, & gras, (fan.) to punch a horseshoe
close to the inner edge;
maigre, & maigre, (fan.) to punch a horseshoe
close to the outer edge.
etampure, f.. mouth or splay of a hole in a metal
plate; (Jan.) nail-hole (of a horseshoe;
strictly, the square hole for the head of the
nail).
etaimire, f., material for tinning.
Ctanche, a., tight (steam-, water-, wind-tight);
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d'eau, water-tight;
faire I'
, to make (water-) tight;
mettre d , to stanch; to dry, empty (as, a
ditch);
& la, de, vapeur, (steam) steam-tight.
etancheite, f., tightness (water, steam, of joints,
etc.).
etancher, v. a., to stanch, to stop (a leak), quench,
slake, dry up;
un vaisseau, to free a ship by her pumps;
une voie d'eau, to stop a leak.
Ctancon, m., prop, stanchion, pillar, shore, stay,
stud.
etanconner, v. a., to prop, to shore up; to timber
(a mine), to stay, to underprop.
Stang, m., pond.
etape, f., (mil.) (originally) subsistence issued
to troops on the march, (hence, today)
halting place at the end of a day's march;
(by a further extension) the distance between
two halting places, (and, therefore)
the day's march itself, (and in gen.) distance
to be covered in one march, (more
esp.) the regulation distance expected of
troops under normal conditions (from 22 to 25
kilometers);
arrivcrb I'
to reach a halting place;
, to arrive at a gite d' s; (in gen.)
bruler I'
, to march through or by a gile d' *
without halting;
circonscription d' s, in a ligne d' s, a subdivision
of three or four days' march;
commandant d' s, c. o. of a gite d' s;
commandement d' s,c.o.andtheexecutivoand
administrative personnel of a gite d' s;
dirccteur des s, v. s. v. directeur;
direction d' s, v. s. v. direction;
faire wne to make a , day's march, to make the
distance from one etape to the next;
gite d' s, halting place on a route d' s, q. v.;
the various gites are about 25 kilometers apart,
and each has a post-office, a hospital, a telegraph
station, a small garrison, etc.;
gite principal d' s, every third or fourth gite
d' s on a route d' s (has a stronger personnel
than the ordinary gite, a larger hospital,
a sous-intendance,q. v.; is establisned only when
the ligne d' s de route is prolonged beyond 4
ctapes) ;
JiopUal d' s, the hospital of a gtte d' s;
infirmerie d' s, de gite d' s, infirmary established
in a gite d' s that has no hospital.
lieu d' , halting place;
ligne d' s, ligne d' s de route, line of s,
(hence, substantially) line of supply, of communications,
line of posts;
ligne d' s auxiliaire,&\ii\.e of s parallel to a
railway;
route d' s, the road on which are situated the
gites d' s, and which connects an army in the
field with the terminus of railway transportation;
service des s, a general term for the whole
service of transportation (railways excepted)
and supply as carried on , along the lignes d '
s;
station tele d' s de guerre, most advanced
railroad station on line of communication; station
where the route d' sv begins; (in maneuvers,
this is called station tete d' s de
manoeuvres) ;
tele d' s de guerre, v. station tele d' s de
guerre;
tele d' s de route, on a route d' s, the
gite d' s nearest the army, advancing and
halting with it; (here the transport service of
the army itself comes into play);
troupes d' s, troops garrisoning a gite d' s;
zone des s, the zone, front, or belt crossed
by routes d' s, (substantially) the supply
front.
Ctat, m ., the state the , government state ; , condition,
establishment, position; (mil. adm.) report, list,
account, return, muster-roll, inventory, estimate,
register;
chefd' the head of the , state;
civil, (law) position occupied by each individual
in the family and in society;
de corps, (mil.) register or list of an arm of the
service, of a department > etc.;
du corps du genie, (Fr. a.) annual register of
the engineer corps;
de demande, (mil.) requisition;
detaille de Vassiette- du logemenl, (for each
French garrison town) a report on each military
building, giving its design, dimensions, capacity,
and use;
de distribution, (Fr. a. adm.) in the service des
lils militaires, paper or voucher on which bed-
ding is issued;
dresser un , to make a return of; to draw up a
report;
faire I' de, to make a return, report, of;
de filiation, return or list, by name, of officers,
n. c. 6., and men about to embark;