A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

anger 370 rapprocher
ranger du monde sur une manoeuvre, (cord.) to man
a rope;
se , to place one's self, to take up a certain
position; to leave the way clear, to get out of
the way; (of the wind) to veer: (man.) of the
horse, to take up a proper position; (mil.) to
fall in, to be drawn up for battle;
se h bord, h quai, (nav.) to come up along side
of a ship, of a quay;
se sous les drapeaux de , (mil.) to take service
tinder ;
des troupes, (mil.) to draw up troops.
rangette, f., sheet iron for stovepipes.
ranguillon, m., tongue (of a buckle).
rapage, m., rasping.
rapatelle, f., horsehair cloth for sieves.
rapatrlement, m., sending home (of soldiers, sailors,
citizens, from a foreign country or expedition,
etc.).
rapatrier, v. a., to send home, to one's country; to
send home (from the colonies, from foreign expeditions,
time-expired men, etc.).
rape, f.. rasp, file, grater; (hipp.) in plural, malanders
with a transverse crack;
bt, bois, wood rasp;
h bois to, fine (grosse, moyenne) piqure, fine-
Coarse-, medium-) cut wood rasp;
h chaud, rasp for hot iron;
afroid, rasp for cold iron;
de marechal, v. d, sabot;
a sabot, (fan.) farrier's rasp.
raper, y. a., to rasp, to scrape, to grate;
machine & , rasping mill.
rapetassage, m., patching.
rapetasser, v. a., to patch, patch up, piece, botch.
rapetisser, v. a. n., to lessen, make shorter,
shorten, to become little.
raphS, m., (hipp.) median r^phe.
rapide, a., rapid, quick; steep (of a slope); m.,
rapid(s) (of a river);
canon a tir , (art. ) rapid-fire gun;
de maree, v. s. v. raz de ;
tir , (mil.) rapid fire.
rapidite, f., rapidity, velocity;
indice de , (phot.) ratio of working aperture to
focal length;
d'un objectif, (pilot.) rapidity of a lens;
du tir, (art., sm. a.) rapidity, rate of fire.
raptecer, v. a., to piece, to put in a piece, to patch.
rapiere, f., (sm. a.) rapier.
rapine, f., rapine, pillage, plunder, plundering.
rapiner, v. a., to commit rapine; to pillage, plunder,
etc.
rapointlr, v. a., to repoint (as a broken tool).
rappareiller, v. a., to match, to get a pair, a match;
des chevaux, to match horses.
rapparier, v. a., v. rappareiller.
rappel, m., recall; (mil.) battery or call for assembly,
i. e., first call; summons to service; withdrawal
from command; (art.) return to battery;
(nav.) beating to quarters; (adm.) further payment,
payment of what remains due;
d'un ambassadeur, recall of an ambassador;
battre le , (mil.) to beat the assembly; (nav.)
to beat to quarters;
pour I'incendie, fire call;
lettre de , letter of recall (of an ambassador);
fi I'ordre, call to order (in deliberative assem-
blies);
(mil..
(sounded
pneumatlque, (mach.) dashpot gear of Frikart-
C orliss engine;
de pret, v. de solde,'
a la question, bringing back to the point (in
deliberative assemblies) ; the previous question;
de roulis, (nav.) weather roll;
de solde, (mil.) further payment, restoration
of retained pay;
rappel, le aux tambours et aux ctairons, (mil.)
call for the assembly of field music (assembly
of trumpeters, U. S. A.).
rappeler, v. a., to recall; to call up (by telegraph);
(cord.) to grow; (mil.) to beat, sound, the assembly;
& , (mil.) to sound the call for ;
a, pour, la garde, (mil.) to sound the call for
guard mounting;
aux malades, (mil.) to sound sick call;
ti I'ordre, to call to order (deliberative assemblies);
a la question, to bring back to the point (deliberative
assemblies); to call for the previous
question;
au reglement, to protest against a violation of
regulations.
rappointis, m., plastering nail; (inpl.) generic term
for nails, spikes, hooks, etc.
rapport, m., action of bringing; report (in general);
statement, account; return (from property),
income, revenue, profit; reimbursement; evidence,
testimony; ratio, relation, connection;
(mil.) orderly hour, orderly call; (regimental)
daily report, morning report, guard report;
publication of orders, etc.; (fond.) false core,
drawback; (mach.) take-up for wear;
au , (mil.) at orderly hour;
au de, on the report of;
avant le , (mil.) before orderly hour;
d'avaries, (nav.) damage report;
de la charge au projectile, (art.) ratio of the
charge to the projectile;
sur la conduite, (mil.) confidential report on
conduct;
d' experts, report of a survey, etc. ;
general de la place, (mil.) consolidated guard
report;
Jieure du , (mil.) orderly hour;
journalier, (mil.) daily (morning) report;
de maree, volume of water brought by the
tide into a canal, river, etc.;
du matin ; (mil.) morning report;
de mer, (nav.) shipmaster's protest against
responsibility for damage to ship or cargo, or
for a collision;
piece de , v. s. v. piece;
salle des s, du , (mil.) orderly room;
de sante, (mil.) medical return;
^situation, situation , (mil.) morning report
of a company, troop, or battery; report,
return;
du soir, (mil.) evening report;
terres de , made ground.
rapports, a., inlaid, inserted, not in one piece with;
(mach.) with take-up for wear;
piece e, inlaid or inserted piece.
rapporter, v. a. n., to bring back, to add; to report,
make a report ; to state, show; to join, fit in a
piece, insert, inlay, join; to repeal; to yield, to
produce, bring in; to repay; (of the tides) to increase;
(of the sea) torise; (drawing) to set down,
trace, protract, plot a survey; (nav.) to bring
up, to show (so many fathoms, of a sounding
line);
une lot, etc., to repeal a law;
une piece, to inlay; to insert a piece;
des terres, to fill in with (transported) earth;
un toron, (cord.) to lay in a strand.
rapporteur, m., reporter; secretary of a board,
chairman of a commission, etc.; (mil.) recorder
of a board; in France, the major in a conseil
d''administration, judge-advocate of a courtmartial;
(inst.) protractor, semicircular protractor;
d'atelier, (inst.) bevel protractor;
du budget, (adm.) official charged with the
preparation of the budget;
eclimetre, (inst.) clinometer protractor;
a limbe complet, (inst.) circular protractor;
officier , (mil.) judge-advocate of a courtmartial.
rapprochement, m., bringing, placing, putting
together; conjunction; junction.
rapprocher, v. a., to bring nearer or together; (of
a telescope) to bring up, bring near.