A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

poteau 349 poudre
poteau de jonction, (teleg.) pole or post, as on a
railway bridge;
xjumeles, (tcleg.) poles bolted together;
d lumiere, light spindle, spar, or buoy;
% de mine, (mm.) pit wood;
montant, (cons.) jamb;
de raccordement, y.
de jonction;
de remorque, towing post;
de remplage, (cons.) stud, quartering, quarter;
telegrapJiique, telegraph pole;
valet, fastening or securing post (of a sluice
gate).
potfe, f., putty (of tin); (fond.) luting loam;
d'emeri, emery dust;
d'etain, tin putty; "
defer, rust putty;
de montagne, rotten stone;
de rouille, v. defer.
potelet, m., small strut, post, stanchion.
potence, f., crutch; standard or rule for measuring
the height of men and of horses; gallows, gibbet;
arm (to hang anything on); pin tongs;
saddle post (of a bicycle; (surv.) offset staff;
(man.) ring post; (mil.) angle in a line (e. g.,
formed by a flank with the line); (cons.) bracket;
crossbeam; (art.) shaft or stem (of a loading
crane); (pont.) pier of a (military) suspension
bridge; horse of a flying bridge;
brider la , (man.) in riding at the rings, to hit
the post instead of the ring;
de chargement, (art.) shell crane;
chat de , cat of the horse (of a flying bridge);
comble en , (cons.) shed roof;
& deux liens, (cons.) double bracket;
en , (mil.) with a flank forming an angle with
the main line;
Haiti , (cons.) strut fitted with a bracket;
dforer, deforet, boring frame;
d'un pont volant, horse of a flying bridge;
d un lien, (cons.) single bracket;
sous , under standard height;
troupe en , (mil.) line with a flank forming
an angle.
potentiel, m. (elec., etc.) potential;
chute de , fall of potential;
difference de , difference of potential;
d'elasticite, potential of elasticity;
perte de , loss of potential.
potentiometre, m., (elec.) potentiometer.
potenttte, f., (expl.) potentite.
poterie, f., pottery; (cons.) stoneware pipes; hollow
bricks (for floorings and arches).
poierne, f . , sort of tunnel under a quay (opening
on the river from the street); (fort.) postern.
potiche, f., hole bored, cut made, in a timber, to
examine it.
potin, m., (met.) pewter; pinchbeck;
gris, cock metal;
jaune, brass.
pouce, m., thumb; inch;
d'eau de fontainier, de fontainier,
fontainier, unit of flow; quantity of water passing
in a minute through a circular aperture,
27m ' in diameter, pierced in a vertical wall,
under a head of 15.8^ (about 13 liters a min-
ute);
- d'eau metrique, unit of flow through an aperture
pierced m a wall I? 1 " thick, under a
head of 5"i (24 cubic meters in 24 hours).
poucet, m., (cons.) wiper, lifter, nipper, cam.
poueettes, f. pi., handcuffs; manacles for the
thumb.
poui-ier, m., thumbstall.
poudre, f., dust, powder; gunpowder; explosive.
(Except where otherwise indicated, the following
terras relate- to explosives:)
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aciereuse, (met.) cementation powder;
amide, amidee, amide powder;
d I'ammoniaque, ammoniakrut;
angulaire, anguleuse, angular powder
(angular grains);
Atlas, Atlas powder;
avarice, damaged powder;
s aux azotates, nitrate powders;
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poudre azotee, nitrogen powder (generic term for
modern powders);
battre la, , (man.) to paw the ground;
binaire, powder composed of two substances
(e. g., gunpowder without any sulphur);
blanche, white German or American powder;
Augendre's powder; white powder;
au, de, bois, nitrated sawdust;
au bois pyroxi/le, Schultz powder;
brisante, brisant powder, quick powder;
high explosive; any chemical explosive (i. e.,
no mechanical mixture);
d bronzer, (in the arts) bronze powder;
brune, brown powder;
caillou, pebble powder;
& canon, cannon powder;
d canon des pilons, ordinary powder;
de carabine, rifle (sporting) powder;
de carriere, blasting powder;
cementante, cementatoire, v. aciereuse;
au charbon, gunpowder, so called to distinguish
it from new powders;
de charbon, (in yen.) coal dust;
: de chasse, sporting powder; (in France, three
kinds: fine, superfine, extra-fine);
chloratee, chlorate powder;
* aux chlorates, chlorate powders;
chocolat, brown powder, cocoa powder;
de commerce extcrieur, powder manufactured
for the foreign trade;
d combustion lente, slow-burning powder;
d combustion rapide, quick-burning powder;
comprimee, compressed powder, v. moulee
en charges;
colon,
de colon, gun cotton, pyroxylin;
cuite, powder made by boiling ingredients to
a paste;
cylindrique, cylinder powder;
demi-ecrasee, bruised powder;
de demolition, blasting powder;,
epreuve de , proof, test, of powder;
essai de , v. epreuve de ;
d'exercice, (art.) blank-cartridge powder;
exploiter d la , (mm., etc.) to blast, blow up;
explosive, Noble's explosive powder;
extra-fine, a variety of sporting powder
(French);
faible, low explosive;
dfaible fumee, a powder producing but little
smoke;
faire parler la , (mil.) to open hostilities;
fine, small-grained powder; a variety of
sporting powder (French);
forte, high explosive;
aufulmicoton, gun-cotton powder;
fulminante, fulminating, detonating, powder;
priming powder, mixture of mercury fulminate
and other bodies; powder in which the
chlorate is substituted for the nitrate of potassium;
au fulminate de mercure, fulminate of mercury
powder;
d fumee, ordinary black (smoke-producing)
powder;
avec fumee, ordinary black powder (to distinguish
it from smokeless);
sans fumee, smokeless powder;
a fusil, rifle powder, musket powder, smallarms
powder;
de fusion, (met.) a sort of flux (niter, sulphur,
and sawdust);
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gallique, Horsley's gallnut powder;
geante, giant powder;
d giboyer, v. de chasse;
en grain, grained powder;
d grains fins, fine-grain (small-arm) powder;
grenee, grained powder; a commercial name
for pyroxylee, q. v.;
grise, gray powder, grakrut;
d gros grains, (art.) pebble powder (England);
mammoth powder (United States);
(sm. a.) large-grain powder;