A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

prud'homme 360 puits
prud'homme, m., expert, umpire, arbitrator.
prytange, m., militaire (de la Fleche), (Fr. a.)
preparatory military school for the sons of
officers without means or of officers that have
been killed in action.
pseudo-vitesse, f., (ball.) the horizontal componnent
of a projectile's velocity..
psyclirometre, m., psychrometer.
public, a., public; m., the public;
le bien the , public good;
I'autorite que, officials charged with the public
administration;
charges qucs, taxes;
la.chose que, the State:
droit science of , government, constitutional
law;
Edifices s, public buildings;
femme que, prostitute;
force que, v. s. v. force;
maison que, house of ill-fame;
minist.ere v. s. v. , ministere;
pcrsonnes ques, public officials;
puissance que, the national power;
partie que , v. s. v. partie;
officier , public official;
domaine , y. s. v. domaine.
publication, f., publication;
.periodique, periodical.
publiciste, m., political writer.
pucliet, m., (pont.) pitch pan, pitch ladle,
pucheux, m., v. -puchet.
puddlage, m., (met.) puddling;
chaud, wet puddling, pig boiling;
aufour bouiUant, v. chaud;
au gaz, gas puddling;
gras,
v. chaud;
humide, v. chaud;
maigre, dry puddling;
mecanique, mechanical puddling;
sec, v. maigre.
puddler, v. a., (met.) to puddle;
four ft , puddling furnace.
puddierie, f., v. puddlage.
puddleur, m., (met.) puddler (workman); puddling
furnace.
mecanique, puddling machine;
rotatif, rotary puddler, furnace; revolving
furnace.
pudrolithe, f., (expl.) pudrolithe.
pueii, m., bois en wood not three , years old.
pugilat, m., boxing.
pugiliste, m., boxer, pugilist.
puine, f., brushwood.
puisage, m., drawing water.
puisard, m., waste well; cesspool; drain well,
trap, sink; drain pipe embedded in a wall;
(mm.) sump; water sump; (nav.) well;
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absorbant, sort of sink or catch basin (used
when the slope is too gentle to carry off water).
puiser, v. a., to draw, dip from, imbibe; (fig.) to
borrow, take from; (fan.) to take off, remove,
horn with the shank of the nail.
puisette, f ., sort of ladle or scoop.
puisoir, m., ladle.
puissance, f., power; force, authority; domination,
empire; property; \irtue; power (of a microscope);
thickness (of a vein); government,
sovereignstate; effectiveness; (iec/i.) horsepower;
(art.) ell'ectiveness (as of a gun, shrapnel, etc.);
quantity of explosive in a projectile;
batistique, (art.) ballistic power;
en bougies, (elcc.) candlepower;
calorifique, heating power;
centrifuge, centrifugal force;
de cheval, horsepower;
en chevaux, horsepower;
defensive, (nav.) armor;
dilaniatrice, (expl.) rending strength; explosive,
tearing, power;
effective, actual power; actual, effective,
horsepower; effective horsepower per second;
elasticite de la , quality of a steam engine to
furnish power carrying from nominal power;
electnque utile, (elcc.) net output;
electnque totale, (elec.) total output;
puissance d'evaporation, evaporatoire, (steam)
evaporative power (of a boiler);
executive, the executive (in a government);
d' 'expansion, expansive power;
garante, guaranteeing power (government);
hautes s contractantes, high contracting
powers;
hydrauliquc, water power;
impulsive, impulsiv* , impelling, power;
indiquce, indicated horsepower per second;
legislative, the legislature;
la-jistique d'une ligne, (r. r.) circulating capacity
of a railway (sixty to seventy trains a
day in each direction of a double-track railway) ;
de la machine, (mach.) power, efficiency, of
the machine or engine;
d'une machine en chevaux, (mach.) horsepower
of an engine;
maritime, naval power;
mecanique, simple machine;
meurtriere, (art.) killing power (as of a shrapnel);
militaire d'un navire, (nav.) offensive qualities
of a ship;
m.otrice, motive power; (nav.) engine (generic
term);
nette, v.
nominale,
power;
effective;
nominal power; nominal horse-
offensive, (nav.) armament;
pcrforante, de perforation, (art.) perforating,
punching, power of a projectile;
reelle, effective power;
ft toute at full , power;
de traction, tractive, tractive power;
utile, useful power;
de la vapeur, steam power;
de vaporisation, (steam) evaporating power.
puits, m. ? well; water tank; (mm.) pit, shaft; (mil.)
military pit; (mil min.) shaft; (nav.) well;
locker;'
absorbant, drain well;
d'aerage, air shaft;
ft air, ventilating shaft;
d'appel, (min.) uptake; upcast shaft;
artesicn, artesian well;
a la barred mine, (auger-) bored well;
ft la Boule, (mil. min.) shaft ft la Boule, one
in which the frames (chassis coffrants) are placed
one on top of the other;
ft bras, pump well;
ft chaine(s), (nav.) chain locker;
de chargement, (art.) shell-hoist shaft (of a
turret); ammunition shaft;
ft coffrage, (mil. min.) lined shaft;
-sans coffrage, (mil. min.) unlined shaft;
ft combustion, (met.) flue;
de descente, (min.) footway shaft;
ft I'cau, water tank;
d'eclatement, (art.) explosion chamber;
d'epuisement, (min.) sump shaft;
d' extraction, (min.) hoisting shaft;
de forage, fore, driven well, drive well
tube well;
defrcttage, (art.) shrinkage pit;
grand , (mil. min.) great gallery shaft;
de Vhclice, (nav.) propeller well;
ft la hollandaise, (mil. min.) shaft lined with
chassis hollandais;
instantanc, tube well;
inter ieur, (min.) winze;
ft maiiiitlie, (mach.) crank pit;
de marie, tide shaft (sort of tide indicator);
militaire, (mil.) military pit;
de mine, (mil. min., etc.) shaft;
moycn , (mil. min.) common branch shaft;
pcrccr un , to sink a shaft;
perdu, blind well (a well of sandy bottom,
absorbing the water);
petit , (mil. min.) shaft from which opens a
cased branch;
pleureur, seepage well;
ft poulie, draw well;
ft roue, draw well;