A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

affaire 6 afffit
affaire, f., affair, business, piece of business; (mil.')
affair, combat, engagement;
d'avant-postes, (mil.) outpost engagement, or
skirmish;
s indigenes,
affermir, y. a., to strengthen; fasten, fix; establish,
consolidate.
affermissement, m.-, strengthening, consolidation.
affichage, m., posting of public notices; (esp., Fr.
a.) posting of notices dealing with the army, as
of lists, drawing of lots, etc.
atfiche, f., poster.
afficher, v. a., to post (a notice).
affilage, m., sharpening, setting; act of sharpening,
etc.
affiler, v. a., to sharpen, set (a tool, etc.).
affilure, f., operation of pointing (as a nail).
affinage, m., (met.) fining, refining;
methode d' anglaise, puddling.
affiner, v. a., (met.) to fine, refine; (of the weather)
to clear.
affinerie, f., (met.) fining-hearth, finery,
affineur, m., (met.) finer (workman).
affleuri, a., flush (said of two adjacent or contiguous
solids);
assemblage , flush-joint.
affleurement, m., outcrop (of a ledge, rock, etc.).
affleurer, v. a., to make flush, level, with each
other.
afflouer, v. a., to float (a stranded boat).
affluent, m., (top.) affluent, tributary stream; a.,
tributary, flowing into;
d maree, tide-stream.
affoie, a., (elec.) perturbed, disturbed (of magnetic
needle).
affolement, m., (elec.) perturbation, unsteadiness
(of magnetic needle).
affouillable, a., liable to erosion, to undermining
(of soil, by water); crumbling, friable.
aflouUlement, m., caving in; undermining; washout;
exfoliation (as by rust); (art.) exposing of
a foundation, by artillery fire;
des balles, (sm. a.) small cavity in bullets of
pure lead, due to powder gases;
des touches & feu, (art.) pitting; long and sinuous
cavities in bronze guns (obs.);
du terrain, wash, washout, caused by running
waters.
aflouiller, v. a., to undermine, to wash away; (art.)
to lay bare a foundation (by artillery fire).
afiourager, v. a., to give fodder to animals (in the
stable).
affourchement, m., slit-and-tongue joint, tongue
joint, split joint.
aflourcner, v. a., to join by an open mortise; (nav.)
to moor.
aflranchir, v. a., to free, discharge; release, deliver;
let go, exempt; pay, prepay; accomplish; shake
off;
d'eau, to pump a vesselfree of water;
affranchir les bouts, to trim off ends (e. g., to turn
the base of a projectile in a lathe).
affranchissement, m., action of freeing, accomplishing,
etc.; prepayment (of postage, carriage,
etc.). v
5 arabes, (Fr. a.) all mutters
relating to administration of the military territory
in Algiers.
affaissement, m., settling, subsidence; (sm. a.)
shortening of bullet, due to pressure of powder
gases; (art.) depression in cast guns, due to projection
in mold.
affaisser, v. a. r., to sink, settle, sag, subside, collapse,
give way.
aflaler, v. a., to overhaul (a rope, etc.);
unpalan, to overhaul a tackle;
s' , to stumble (of ahorse).
affamer, v. a., (mil.) to starve, to reduce to starvation
(garrison, fort).
affectation, f., (mil.) assignment to a particular
arm, unit, or duty;
Mat nominatif d'
: (Fr. a.) list of men sent
each year from active army to the reserve;
speciale, special assignment in certain administrative
and technical branches of the public
service.
affecter, v. av to assign, to allot; to tell off or detail
for a particular duty, etc.
affrfetement, m., chartering, freighting (of a vessel);
d la cueillette, chartering by administration
of commercial vessel in desired direction, when
government cargo
aflermage, m., (adm.) renting out of slopes and of
arable land in or near fortifications.
will not fill a whole ship.
affreter, v. a., to charter, to freight.
affrtteur, m., charterer.
affronter, v. a., (mil.) to face, to attack boldly, to
expose one's self.
afftlt, m., (s. c. art.) top-carriage (U. S.), slide-carriage
(R. A.); (r. f. art.) mount, mounting;
carriage (field artillery); frame or bed (as of a
saw, etc.);
(Except where otherwise indicated, the following
terms relate to artillery.)
a aiguille, platform-carriage;
d balancier, any carriage in which the gun is
directly supported by levers (balancier) rotating
about a horizontal axis;
de batterie, (nav. art.) broadside carriage, cen-
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tral-battery carriage;
d beche de crosse, trail-spade carriage;
d beche d'cssieu, carriage equipped with an
axle-spade;
de bord, (nav. art.) naval carriage;
d bouclier. any carriage provided with a
shield;
d brancard, shaft carriage;
de campagne, field carriage;
de caponniere, caponier mount ;
de casemate, casemate carriage;
de casemate d, pivot-avant, front-pintle casemate
carriage;
de cavalerie, galloping carriage;
chandelier, d chandelier, (r.f. art.) forkpivot
mount, pillar-mounting;
- & chdssis, slide-carriage, chassis-carriage; also,
a generic term for this class of carriages, as distinguished
from the field-carriage type;
d chdssis circulate, carriage with circular
chassis (Canet);
a chdssis horizontal, carriage with horizontal
chassis; -
& chdssis oscilJant, carriage with rocking or
oscillating chassis;
d chassis d pivot-avant, front-pintle carriage;
d chdssis a pivot central, center-pintle car-
riage;
& col de cygne, swan-neck carriage (siege);
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de cote, seacoast artillery carriage;
it crinoline, (r.f. art.) crinoline mount; elastic
cone mount; cage-mount (U. S. N.);
d crosse, trail-carriage; (r.f. art.) mount fitted
with a stock;
crosse d' , trail;
cuirasse, armored carriage, mount; French
translation of German (Schumann) name for
turret or cupola;
cuirasse & eclipse, disappearing armored car-
riage;
de debarguement, (nav.) landing-carriage;
d deformation, generic term for carriages in
which recoil is taken up by springs, cylinders,
etc.;
demontable, carriage that takes apart, takedown
carriage ;
d, depression, depression carriage;
& eclipse, disappearing carriage;
elastigue, (r.f. art.) elastic mount; (art.) generic
term for carriage in which buffers, cylinders,
etc., are used to take up shock of recoil;
eleve, barbette, overbank carriage;
d'embarcation, (nav.) boat-carriage;
d' embrasure, embrasure carriage;
embrasure, (r.f. art.) caponier or flanking
casemate mount;
d embrasure minima, minimum-port car-
d embrasure reduite, minimum-port carriage;
seacoast carriage (R. A.) of limited field of fire;
- fixe, stationary carriage, (seacoast, etc.);
dflasques, bracket-trail carriage;