A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

piquet 327 piston
piquet, de , (mil.') ready to turn out at a moment's
notice (as the quarter of the grand'
garde, the remainder resting);
directeur, (fort.) directing picket;
clre au , (mil.) to be on picket; to be standing
in one place as a punishment;
d'execution, (mil.) firing party (execution) ;
faire le . to stand still in one place;
ferre, shod picket;
former en , to picket;
frette, hooped picket;
de gabion, (fort.) gabion stake;
ft gradins, (sm. a.) firing rest;
ft larder, (siege) fascine picket;
lever le , to decamp, strike camp;
ft menlonnet, (fort.) anchoring, fascine,
picket;
petit , (mil.) sharpened stake by way of
obstacle (in plural, generally);
planter le , to encamp, pitch a tent;
de plateforme, (art.) securing stake;
de reperage, (art. ) direction stake, steel pin
or peg used in the reperage of a piece;
de relraile, holdfast; (siege) fascine picket;
sabote, shod picket;
de service en cas d'incendie, (mil.) fire picket;
support, (art.) equipment picket or stake
(siege battery);
de tenon de manceuvre, (art.) securing picket >
de tente, tent peg;
de terre, (leleg.) reel picket;
ft tracer, (top., fort. ) tracing picket.
plquetage, (mil.) planting small pickets as obstacles;
(fort.) staking out the lines or trace of
a work.
piqueter, v. a., to stake out (a line); to fasten
by means of pickets; to picket; (fort.) to trace;
(carp.) to mark out (the work);
des fascines, (fort.) to picket or secure fascines;
les gazons, (fort.) to picket down'sods.
piqueur, m., overseer; stud groom, horse breaker;
outrider;
d'ecurie, head groom.
piqure, f., prick, pricking; puncture; worm hole;
backstitching; (farr.) pricking; (met.) pitting;
de ver, worm hole (in wood).
pirate, m., pirate.
piraterie, f., piracy.
pirogue, f., canoe.
piron, m., (mach.) pin, pivot; lower gudgeon of a
vertical shaft.
pirouette, f., (man.) pirouette, circle;
sur les epaules, circle on the forehand;
sur les hanches. circle on the hind quarters;
militaire, circle whose vertical axis passes
through center of the saddle;
ordinaire, v. sur les epaules;
renversee, v. sur les hanches.
plrouetter, v. n. , (man.) to circle.
pis6, m. pise; clay, rammed earth; pis6 work;
(met.) lining material (ganister, fire clay) for
converters, etc.;
en , in, of, beaten earth.
piser, v. a., to do pis work; to construct en pise.
pissalphalte, m., pissasphaltum, mineral tar.
piss6e, f., (met.) slag duet or channel.
piste, f., track, trace; (gym., etc.) cinder path;
(man.) longing ring, race track; track of a horse
at work;
double, (man.) double trace or trail, marked
by both fore and hind quarters at the same
time;
marcher d'une , (man.) to make one trace
(hind follow fore quarters);
marcher de deux s. (man.) to make a double
trace (quarters on different but parallel tracks);
simple, (man.) single trace or trail.
plster, v. r., (man.) (of the horse) to trail himself
(in the gallop, to plant one foot of the rear
biped on same cross line as diagonally opposite
anterior).
plsteur, m., follower (in a flight of pigeons).
plstolct, m., (sm. a.) pistol; (arl.) pistol grip and
appurtenances of a rapid-fire gun; (mtw.)liead,
point, or borer of an earth auger, of a mine
auger, of a boring bar;
appreter le , (sm. a.) to cock the pistol;
d'arc.on, (sm. a.) horse pistol;
double, (sm. a.) double-barreled pistol (obs.);
faire le coup de , (mil.) of a trooper, to leave
the ranks and challenge the enemy to single
combat;
haut le , (sm. a.) raise pistol (position);
de mine, (min.) borer or drill of an earth
auger or of a mine auger;
de mineur, v. de mine;
de petardement, (min.) drilling bar;
de poche, (sm.-a.) pocket pistol;
& repetition, (sm. a.) magazine pistol;
replacer le , (sm. a.) to return pistol;
revolver, revolver;
signaleur, signal pistol.
plstolier, m., good pistol shot.
piston, m., (mach.) piston, sucker, forcer, plug,
bucket, etc.; (sm. a.) tube, nipple (obs.); follower
(of a tubular magazine);
aspirant, valve piston;
ft basse pression, low-pressure piston;
ft brasses, piston with a brush packing;
cercle de , piston ring;
de chargement, (r. f. art.) loading piston
(Hotchkiss);
clapet de , piston clapper;
clef de , piston key;
collerette du grand , duplicate piston ring;
compensates, valve-balance piston;
coquille du , piston crosshead;
corps du , piston body;
coup de , piston stroke;
couronne de , junk ring;
course du , length of stroke of piston;
couvercle du , piston cover;
du cylindre a vapeur, steam piston;
deplaceur, (Stirling's hot-air engine) driving
piston;
ft disques, leather-packed piston;
distribution & , piston-valve motion;
a double effet, double-action piston;
ft double tige, piston with two rods;
detoupage, packed piston;
ft etoupage de chanvre (metallique), hemppacked
(metallic) piston;
expansif, expansive piston;
defermeture, (sm. a.) piston fermeture;
fore, v. perfore;
hfourreau, trunk piston;
garniture de , piston packing;
ft garniture de chanvre, hemp-packed piston;
ft garniture melallique, metallic piston;
grand steam , piston;
guide de la tige du , piston-rod guide;
ft haute pression, high-pressure piston;
intermediaire, intermediate-pressure piston;
jeu de , length of stroke of a piston, travel;
levee de , piston stroke;
marche de , length of piston stroke;
metallique, metallic piston;
moteur, main piston;
perce, perce ft jour, v. perfore;
perfore, hollow piston, perforated piston;
plaque de
; piston packing;
plein, solid piston;
plongeur, plunger, ram, ram plunger;
pneumatique, dashpot of the Corliss engine;
de pompe, sucker; bucket;
de pompe foulante, forcer;
presse-etoupes de , pisiton stuffing box;
ft pression intermediaire, intermediate pressure
piston;
queue de , tailpiece of a piston;