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four 190 fourneau
four ft recuire Us idles, (met.) plate-annealing
furnace;
reverbere, (met.) reverberatory furnace;
rolatif, (met.) rotating hearth (for pud-
souffle, (met.) generic term for blast furnace;
tuyere, (met.) furnace using forced
draught;
ft vent, (met.) draught furnace, blast furnace
(generic term).
fourblr, v. a., to furbish, to burnish.
fourbissage, m., "bright work."
fourbisseur, m., sword cutler; furbisher.
Jourbu, a., foot-sore (of men); (hipp.) foundered.
fourburc, f., (hipp.) foundering,
laminitis, fever of the foot.
foot founder,
fourche, f.,. fork; pitchfork; crutch; sheers;
bicycle fork; (inst.) Y, wye (of a leveling
instrument);
del'arson, (harn.) saddle fork;
an it, f., double clip, spring clip;
arriere, d'arrierc, rear fork (of a
bicycle);
d'avant, front fork (of a bicycle);
de bielle d'excentrique, (mach.) eccentric rod
fork;
de carrosse, prop for a carriage going
uphill;
d'embrayage, (mach.) belt fork, belt
shifter;
d'excentrique, (macJi.) eccentric fork;
piton ft , forked bolt, crotch;
de rampart, crotch, crutch;
de sape, (siege, fort.) sap fork, sap hook.
fourchette, f., small fork; fork: kind of calipers or
compass used in plane-table surveying; rest,
prop; hind guide or futchel of a carriage; (art.)
(in ranging) the distance between an over
and a short, between the long and the short
shot; fork, bracket; (limber) fork; (hipp.) frog,
frush; (mach.) belt guide, belt shifter;
en duree, (art.) the "time fork," in getting
the range by observing the times of burst of
successive shells;
echauffee et pourrie, (hipp.) thrush,
etroite, (art.) the fork corresponding to onequarter
of a turn of the elevating screw
for percussion fire, to one-half turn for timefuse
fire;
guide, (mach.) belt shifter;
la grande , (art.) in ranging, the fork obtained
by increasing the elevation from an observed
short;
large, (art.) the fork whose limits are obtained
by one turn of the elevating screw;
de percussion, (sm. a.) percussion fork;
queue de , fork of hind guides of a wagon;
regler le tir ft la , (orf.) to get the range by
bracketing;
la r essence, (art.) in ranging, the fork obtained
by reducing the elevation from an observed
over;
de serfage, (F. m. art.) tightening or compressing
fork (24 cm seacoast);
tir ft la , (art.) bracket, ranging fire;
tircr ft la , (art.) to find, determine, the
fork;
du tour, (art.) v. large.
fourchon, m., prong (of a fork); fork (of a tree).
fourcliu, a., forked, branching off; cloven,
furcate;
arbre , forked tree;
chemin , crossroad.
fourchure, f., fork, splitting; bifurcation.
four-Ron, m., (mil., etc.) van; victual-, ammunition-,
baggage-, wagon; military wagon;
ft baggages, baggage wagon;
fourgon, de correspondance, mail wagon;
-forge, forge wagon;
de levee de boites, mail-collecting wagon;
regimentaire, regimental baggage wagon;
regimentaire ft vivres, regimental provision
foulant, bake oven on wheels; traveling
bakery; (mil.) field oven;
ft sole, (met.) any hearth with a bed;
ft sole fixe, (met.) hearth with fixed bed;
ft sole mobile, (met.) hearth with movable
bed'
ft sole tournante, (met.) hearth with rotat-
wagon;
du service de sante, medical baggage
wagon;
ft vivres, provision wagon.
fourmilifcre, f., (hipp.) cavity in a chronic foundered
foot (due tofourbure).
fournaise, f., furnace.
fourneau, m., furnace; fire hole; hearth; stove;
kiln; chamber (of a mine); (mil. min.) chamber,
mine chamber (strictly, loaded mine, or
the charge itself).
I. Military mining, etc.:
x accoles, series of mines intended to be
sprung at the same moment, conjunct
mines;
d'artifice, (artif.) furnace of a pyrotechnic
laboratory (of two kinds: de lere espece,
in which the flame reaches the sides and
bottom of the boiler; de 2emc es-pece,
in which the flame reaches the bottom
only);
bas, lower mine, countershaft mine;
ft charge apres bounaqe, chamber prepared
and tamped and then loaded, one that may be
loaded after tamping;
contre-puits, upper mine (above galleries),
countershaft mine;
de, ft demolition, demolition mine, (more
particularly) a mine prepared to blow up works
when abandoned;
de lere, Seme, esptce, v.
djartifice;
x-etages, x etages, mines in tiers, tiered
mines;
indice du ratio of the line of least resistance
,
to the crater radius;
isole, independent, single, mine; (a synonym
of) fougasse; (in pi.) isolated, unconnected
mines;
de mine, the charge of a military mine;
mine chamber;
ordinaire, common mine; mine producing a
two-line crater;
retirade, v. de tete;
ft boulets rouges, ft rougir les boulets,
(art.) hot-shot furnace (obs.);
sous-charge, undercharged mine, a mine
whose crater radius is less than the line of least
resistance;
superieur, (in a tiered system) upper mine
(synonym of contre-puits, q. y.);
surcharge, overcharged mine (globe of compression,
though this term is also applied to
undercharged mines); mine whose crater radius
is greater than the line of least resistance;
de tete, a mine having a conjugate (
retirade) and whose explosion causes its conjugate
to work.
II. Metallurgy, etc.:
en activite, furnace in blast;
d'affinage, refining forge, refinery, refining
furnace;
ft (l')air chaud (froid), hot- (cold-) blast furnace;
ft I' anthracite, anthracite blast furnace;
anetc, furnace out of blast;
arreter un to , put a furnace out of blast;
ft avant creuset, forehearth blast furnace;
bas , bloomery
furnace or hearth;
de cakinage, ft calciner, calcining furnace;
de cementation, ft cementer, steel-converting
furnace, cementation furnace;
ft charbon, charcoal pit;
h charbon de bois, charcoal oven;
chauffe du , fire hole of a furnace;
au coke, coke furnace;
ft creuset, crucible furnace;
ft creuset interieur, a furnace in which the
hearth is wholly within the shell;
de cuisine, kitchen range;
dechauffer, heating, annealing, surface;
en feu, v. en activite,'