A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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fusil choice-bored, choke-bore shotgun;
coup de , v. s. v. coup;
crosse de butt of the , stock;
h culasse tombante,
v. arme & culasse tom-
bante;
d, four canons, & deux coups, doublebarreled
gun;
electrique, electric gun. (Pieper) gun fired
by electricity; also, in tests, etc., any gun fired
by electricity (incorrect term);
d'epreuve, rifle used to try ammunition;
h frette, (ball.) rifle barrel bedded in an
enormous cylinder (frette), and intended for
the test of ammunition;
d gaz, a gaz liguefie, Giffard gun;
de guerre, v. a'infanteric;
le haut, (position of) advance carbine;
d'honneur, musket of honor, so called, given
as a reward during the Revolution, and before
the institution of the Legion of Honor;
d'infanterie, infantry rifle;
lisse, smoothbore musket;
& longue portee, long-range rifle;
d, magasin, magazine rifle;
mcttre le enjoue, to point; to aim;
de munition, v. d'infanterie;
d'ordonnance, regulation or service rifle;
pendule, (ball.) gun pendulum, musket
pendulum;
& pene, v. armeb, pene;
percutant, d, percussion, percussion
musket ;
de petit calibre, small-caliber rifle;
& pierre, v. & silex;
pierre de , flint, gunflint;
& piston, v. percutant;
& pompe, v. percutant;
portee de , rifle range, musket range;
a portee de , within musket shot;
raye, rifled musket;
to "fire in" a rifle, to get its "personal
equation" for the day;
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t wall piece;
& repetition, repeating rifle;
revolver, gun with cylindrical breech mechanism,
like a revolver (v. arme revolver);
& rotation retrograde, v. arme & rotation retrograde;
& silex, flintlock;
& tabatiere, v. arm-eti tabatiere;
& tige, v. arme d, tige;
h tir continu, rifle from which all the cartridges
in a magazine may be fired without
taking the piece from the shoulder;
& tir rapide, rapid-fire small arm;
& tir reduit, subcaliber gallery piece;
& tiroir. v. armed, tiroir;
type, type gun;
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gabajre, f., (nav.) transport, lighter.
gabarer, v. a., to scull a boat.
gabari, m., v. gabarit.
gabariage, m., act, action, of modeling.
gabarier, v. a., to mold, model.
gabarit, m., gauge, templet, modeling board;
(siege, fort. ) gabion form ;
de chargement, (r. r.) tunnel gauge (i. e., a
frame of the interior profile of the tunnel, to
gauge trucks or flat cars loaded en vrac);
de gabion. des gabions, (siege, fort.) gabion
form;
de pente, (mil. min.) slope gauge;
des rails, (r. r.) rail section.
gabet, m., vane; sight of a quadrant.
gabier, m., (nav.) picked sailor, first-class man;
de liune, topman, rifleman in the tops.
gabion, m., (siege, fort.) gabion;
d'artillerie, (Fr. art.) gabion 1 high (wattling)
by O.S^ in exterior diameter;
buse de s, v. s. v. buxe;
clayonne, wicker gabion;
fusil h un coup, single-barreled gun; single loader:
ft vapeur. steam gun;
& vent, air gun;
b, verrou, (any) bolt gun, the modern military
rifle.
fusilier, m., (mil.) fusilier; any person using a
small-arm rifle (as, e. g., in flanking fire);
s de discipline, v. compagnie de discipline;
8-martos, (Fr. nav.) sailors trained in the use
of the rifle and used on occasion to form landing
parties; armed seamen.
fusillade, f., (sm. a.) firing, discharge of musketry,
fusillade.
fusilier, v. a. r., to shoot, to execute by shooting
(military execution); to shoot one another.
fusillette, f., (artif.) very small rocket.
fusion, f., fusion, melting; alliance, combination;
(mil.) combining of troops (as companies, battalions,
into one, on account of small numbers);
des corps de troupe, (mil.) dissolution or disbanding
of a regiment and passage of elements
into other regiments or bodies;
crue, (met.) fusion producing gray pig;
en , in fusion, melted;
entrer en , to begin to melt;
point de , melting point ;
reductive, (met.) melting or fusion proper;
seche, (met.) fusion producing white pig.
fttt, m., cask, barrel; barrel or cylinder of a jack;
shaft, trunk (of a column); pole; handle (as of
a saw); post (of a crane), crane post; (sm. a.)
wooden lining of a scabbard; stock of a musket
(esp. part under barrel), forearm, forestock,
tip stock; (mech.) brace; (harn.) frame (of a
saddle);
de girouette, vane stock;
de grue. crane post;
et meche de vilebrequin> body and tap of a
center bit, stock and bit;
de rabot, stock of a plane;
de sabre, scabbard lining (of wood);
de tambour, barrel of a drum.
futaie, f., (top.) forest or wood of high-stemmed
trees;
foret de haute . forest of full-grown (old) trees;
haute , forest frees of full growth.
futaille, f., cask, barrel; generic term for casks and
barrels.
futtfe, mastic (of glue and sawdust).
fuynnt, a., tapering; receding (of shape, e. g., plate
of a turret or cupola);
aller en , to approach each other (as the edges
of a front sight);
echelle e, reducing scale, flying scale.
fuyard, m., fugitive, runaway.
gabion farci, sap roller;
du genie, (Fr. eng.) gabion 0.80m high (wattling)
and 0.60 in exterior diameter;
pliant, collapsible gabion;
roulant, sap roller;
de sape, sap gabion;
de tranchee, trench roller.
gabionnade, f., (fort.) gabion work, gabionade,
gabion revetment; intrenchment of gabions.
gabionnage, m., (fort.) gabioned parapet; gabionrevetted
parapet.
gabionner, v. a., (siege, fort.) to revet with gabions,
to gabion.
gaburon, m., fish, clamp (for a mast).
gachage, m., mixing of mortar.
gache, f., nab, catch, staple; wall hook;
de, du, loquet, (art.) latch catch (latch recess);
de serrure, lock staple.
gachfe, f., amount of mortar, concrete, mixed at
one time.
gacher, v. a., to mix, stir, temper (mortar, plaster);
(fig.) to bungle, to botch;