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gacher 198 galet
gacher la chaux, to slake lime;
clair, to make a thin mortar;
lache to make , grouting ;
serre, to temper hard; to make a stiff mortar.
gachette, f., catch; (sm. a., r.f. art.) sear; trigger
(rare) ;
detente, trigger and sear in one;
peser sur la to , pull the trigger;
rcssort de , sear spring;
rcssort , trigger spring;
de stir tit. , safety sear;
vis de sear screw.
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gacheux, a., sloppy;
terre se, swampy ground.
gachis, m., (mas.) mortar (made of sand, lime, and
plaster).
gaffe, f . , boat hook;
& bateau, (pont.) boat hook;
or shaft of a boat hook
baton de , pole
fcr de , head of a boat hook ;
& nacelle, (pont.) mooring boat hook; "
A pointe et&croc, ordinary boat hook
porter , (mil. slang.) to be on sentry duty, to
be on post.
gaffer, v. a., to use a boat hook; to keep or hold a
boat by a boat hook.
gage, m pay, hire, wages;
de bataille, de combat, challenge.
gagnage, m., pasture land; pasturage.
gagner, v. a., to get, earn, win, obtain, acquire;
to recover, fetch, overhaul, draw; (mil.) to
reach (a position) ;
de I'avant, to gain ground;
une bataille, to win a battle;
les champs, to run away, to run off, escape;
I'cnnemi, (mil.) to reach or overtake the
enemy;
au haut, le haut, v. les champs;
b, la main, (man.) to pull, to try to get the
bit between the teeth (horse);
la mesure, (fenc.) to get an advantage by
following up a graze;
du terrain, to gain ground;
le vent, (nav.) to get the weather gauge;
la volonte d'un cheval, (man.) to break a
horse.
galac, m., lignum-vitse, boxwood.
gale, f., (familiar term for) horse.
gaillard, m., (nav.) forecastle;
d'arriere, quarter-deck;
d'avant, forecastle deck.
gaille,f.,v. gaie.
gailleterie, f., what is left of gaillette, q. v., when
the large pieces have been removed.
gaillette, f . , coal in pieces of at least l dm cube.
gain, m., gain (as, mil., by transfer, promotion,
etc.).
galne, f., sheath, case; shaft; (mil.) sheath, scabbard;
(mil. min.) bored shaft of a camouflet;
mining case, shaft; (fort.) corridor, circulation
passage; (art.) priming tube (of a melinite
shell);
d'aerage, (mil. min.) ventilation shaft;
de chargement, (mil. min.) loading shaft;
de circulation, (fort.) communicating gallery
or passage; ventilating gallery; circular passage
around a turret;
de combustion, (met.) flue (of a Cowper stove);
detonante, (art.) (German) elongated mortarshell
fuse;
enveloppe, f . , (fort.) gallery of communication
and of sanitation, separating living rooms
of casemates from parapet or earthwork;
Laloy,(mil. min.) mining case used when a
gallery is opened from a mine crater;
de pavilion, canvas hem (of a flag);
porte-retara, (art.) in some German fuses,
the tube containing the retardation mechanism;
du verrou, (fort.) well or shaft of an embrasure
closer (verrou).
galbe, m.. swell, curved outline (as of a connecting
rod; entasis, swelling (of a column); (ham.)
semicircular iron hoop for saddle bow; (met.)
mass, body, of a blast furnace.
gale, f., wormhole (in wood); (of animals) mange,
scab, itch.
salere, f., gallery; (pont.) towrope;
avirons en , rest on your oars;
conduire unfardeau d, bras en ,-(art.) to drag
a load (as a truck), the power being applied to
handspikes thrust through marlin-spike
hitches in the drag ropes;
ncRud de, en, , (cord.) marlin-spike hitch;
passer un levier en , to pass a lever or a handspike
through a marlin-spike hitch.
galerie, f., gallery, corridor, lobby; conduit, drain;
(min.) adit, level, drift; (fort., mil. min.) gallery,
mining gallery; (steam) flue (of the French
boiler); (mach.) footboard; (med.) end frame of
a litter; (art.) frame on ammunition chests
(to carry or hold the men's sacs);
d'adduction, feeding conduit;
d'allongement, (min.) main level;
d'avancement, heading of a tunnel;
de captage, collecting conduit (for subterranean
waters) ;
casematee, (fort.) casemate gallery;
ii del ouvert, open gallery;
de communication, (fort.) communicating,
transverse, gallery;
de contrescarpe, (fort..) counterscarp gallery;
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crcnelee, (fort.) loopholed gallery;
en dccharge, counterarched gallery;
demi , (mil. min.) low gallery;
demi ordinaire, (mil. min.) gallery 1.3 to 1.5m
high by lm wide;
descendante, descending gallery ;
d'ccoulement, drainage, draining, gallery;
d' ecoute, (mil. min.) listener, listening gal-
lery;
en-semble des s ; (min.) drifts;
entrer en , (mil. min.) to open a gallery;
enveloppe, (fort.) counterscarp gallery;
envelope gallery; (mil. min.) the starting g'lllery
of a system of mines (usually the counterscarp
gallery);
d'escarpe, (fort.) scarp gallery;
flanquante, (fort.) flanking gallery ;
defourneau, vent, draught holes, of a furnace
de fusillade, (fort.) musketry-fire gallery (of
a caponier);
grande , (mil. min.) common gallery; part of
an ecoute nearest the exterior of the place;
grande ordinaire, (mil. min.) gallery 1.85 to 2
high by lm wide;
horizontal^ , level gallery; .
inclince, inclined gallery;
magistrale, (fort.) scarp gallery;
majeure. (mil. min.) great, grand, gallery;
part of an ecoute near its origin;
meurtriere, (fort.) loopholed gallery;
en de mine, (to construct, constructed) after
the manner of a mine gallery).
montante, ascending gallery;
moyenne, (mil. min.) gallery 2 high by 2.1m
wide;
(til de , entrance to a gallery;
en pente, v. incHnec;
petite , (min.) heading, creep hole;
principale; (min.) mother-gate; (mil. min.)
v. majeure;
de revers, (fort.) counterscarp gallery; reverse
gallery, flanking gallery (ditch);
transversals, (mil. min.) cross or communicating
gallery.
galCrien, m., galley slave.
galet, m., pebble, bowlder, gravel, shingle; (art.
mach.) roller, friction roller; live roller; chassis
wheel;
arriere (avant), (art.) rear (front) roller;
& boudin, flanged roller;
de centrage, centering roller;
de
wheel;
chassis, (art.) traversing roller, chassis
couronne de
circle;
s, (irt.) live-roller ring, roller
Ichouer snr le , (of boats) to be stranded.
d'f.quipement, (art.) rigging
pulley used in rigging the gin) ;
roller (small