A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

poudrc 350 poulie
poudre de guerre, service powder;
Hercule, Hercules powder;
en lamelles, powder in flakes or disks;
lente, slow-burning powder;
lissee, glazed powder;
& mousquet, de mousquetene, small-arm
powder;
neuve, new powder;
nitratee, nitrated powder;
noire, ordinary black powder;
noire comprimee, compressed black powder;
normale, standard powder;
noyer Us s, to flood the magazine(s);
offensive, v. brisante;
papier, paper powder;
pellet, pellet powder;
au pierate, picrate powder;
au picrate d'ammoniaque (de potasse), ammonium
(potassium) picrate powder;
picratee, picrate powder;
picrique, Abel's powder, picric powder;
de plomb, (sm. a.) dust shot, mustard seed;
poire ft , powder flask (obs.);
prismatique, prismatic powder;
raaoubee, powder worked over again; .
rapide, quick-burning powder;
refaite, v. radoubee;
en roche, powder that has caked;
ronde, round-grain powder;
d rondelles comprimees, a powder consisting
of compressed disks;
s etsalpe'tres, (Fr. o.)one of the subdivisions
of the administration centrale de la guerre, dealing
with technical questions of explosives and
related matters, and having general charge of
the manufacture of explosives (government
monopoly);
* salpetrees, generic term for black and for
brown powders;
ii salut, saluting powder;
sentir la , (mil.) to have been frequently the
seat of war;
soute aux s, powder magazine;
de surete, name given at first by M. Nobel
to 'dynamite;
superfine, a variety of sporting powder
(French);
ternaire, a powder composed of three bodies
or substances (e. g., gunpowder);
d, tirer, v. de chasse;
aux tonnes et presses, powder that has not
' been incorporated (that has passed directly
from tonnes to presses);
tonnerre, thunder powder;
de traite, (originally) powder manufactured
for the slave trade; (now) export powder for
the colonial trade;
d tremper, (met.) cementation tempering
powder ;
& triturationreduite, -powder produced by a
shortened process of incorporation ;
type, standard type powder, standard powder;
de vente, powder in the trade;
verte, new powder; powder not thoroughly
dried ; a variety of picric powder ;
vive, quick-burning powder;
en vrac, loose powder ;
de Vulcain, Vulcan powder.
poudrer, v. a., to pounce.
poudrerle, f., (powd.) powder mill, powder works.
poudreux, a., dusty.
poudrier, m., hand or workman of a powder mill;
poudriere, f., powder mill; powder magazine (not
a military term).
poiif, a., (of stones) weak, crumbling; m., (met.)
proper amount of resistance required in a
mold to bear the weight of metal in fusion.
pouilleux, a., (of timber, tree) with cankers or
ulcers.
magasind, v. s. v. , magasin;
mesurette ii , powder measure;
de mine, blasting powder (in France, three
kinds: anguleuse, fin(s) gram(s),
ronde);
rnordre la , (mil.) to bite the dust, be killed in
action;
moulee en charges, powder compressed into
poulain, m., colt, foal,
loads);
filly; sledge (for heavy
large cakes (no cartridge bag needed, obs.);
moulee en grain, molded-grain powder;
moulin & , powder mill;
maladie de , (hipp.) colt evil.
poule, f., hen, fowl; (in racing, etc.) pool, sweepstakes);
Oder , (met.) blistered steel ;
d'essai, (racing) maiden stakes;
des produits, (racing) futurity stakes.
faire un , (mil. slang) to fall from one's horse,
to come a cropper (to bite tan bark, U. S. M. A.);
poulet, m., chicken;
d'Inde, (mil. slang) cavalry horse.
poulevrin, m., (powd.) priming powder; pulverized,
mealed powder; powder flask (obs.);
vert, powder previous to granulation;
vieux , powder caked from age and damp.
pouliage, m., blocks, system of blocks.
pouliche, f., (hipp.) filly.
poulie, f., (cord., mach.) pulley, block; sheave,
(more rarely) tackle;
d'appareil, large purchase block; fourfold
block;
d'assemblage, made block;
bande de block , strap;
barbotin, & barbotins, chain pulley;
-baraquette, sister block;
sh bloc, block and block;
en bois, wooden block;
en bois d'assemblage, made wooden block;
bombee, (mach.) rounded, crowning pulley;
d, bras divises, (mach.) split or divided-rim
pulley;
came de shell of a , block;
caliorne, de caliorne,
block;
de capon, cat block;
winding tackle
de cartahu, girt-line block;
& chatne , chain pulley ;
tt chaine & la Vaucanson, sprocket (chain)
pulley;
ft chapeau, shoulder block;
clan de , sheave hole; swallow;
decommande, (mach.) (the pulley working a
particular tool or engine or machine) driving
pulley;
conductrice, (mach.) driving pulley;
conduite, (mach.) driven pulley;
de conduite, leading block;
& cones etages, (mach.) stepped pulley;
ticontre, shoe block;
dcorde, rope pulley;
& corde metallique, wire-rope pulley;
b, cosse, block with lashing eye or thimble;
couple, snatch block;
coupee et ferree, ironbound snatch block;
courante, running block;
ft croc, hook block;
it crochet, traversing pulley;
it, de, bushed block;
tidemi-joue, cheek block;
& dent, snatch block;
destropee, detrop&e, unstrapped block,
block shaken out of its strap;
& deux engoujures, double-scored block;
& deux rangs de rais, (mach.) double-arm pulley;
differentielle, differential pulley;
differentielle double (simple), double (single)
differential pulley or tackle;
directrice, (mach.) guide pulley;
disque, (mach.) disk pulley;
dormante, standing block;