A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

societe 426 soleil
societe de tir, rifle, shooting, club.
socle, m., footing, base, bottom, pedestal, plinth,
blocking, stand; foot, footing, of a wall;foundation
of an engine or machine; (mil. min.) bracing
or pedestal used in tamping ; (artif.) block
on which rockets, etc., are driven; (art.) pedestal
(of soone mounts);
bati, foundation or pier (as for a stream engine,
etc.).
see ur,f., sister;
hospitalise, sister on army nursing duty.
soic, f., silk; hog's bristle, any bristle; tang (of a
tool, sword blade, etc.); (ppO toe crack;
(mach.) journal pin;
bourre de v. s. v. bourre;
,
de manivelle, (much.) crank pin,, connectingrod
journal;
de la poignee, (sm. a.) tang of a hilt.
soif, f., thirst.
goir, m., evening, night (mil, r. r., from 12 o'clock
noon to 12 o'clock midnight).
sol, m. , soil; ground; surface of the ground; ground
plot; sole, bottom (as of a gallery, tunnel, etc.);
compressible, compressible soil;
creuser le to break , ground;
engerbe, v. d'une traverse;
relier au , (elec.) to ground, earth, make a
ground connection;
d'une traverse, (ion. ) in earthwork, the surface
on which a traverse is to rise.
solaire, a., of the sun, solar;
cadran sun dial.
,
solandre, f..(hipp.) solanders, salanders (generally
in plural).
solariser, v. a., (phot.) to expose to the sun.
solbatu, a., (hipp.) surbated, foot-foundered;
rendre , to surbate.
solbature, f . , (hipp.) foot-founder; surbating; closh.
soldat, m., (mil.) soldier (when used alone, frequently
equivalent to infantry private); (in
gen.) any member of the military profession;
(in pi.) the men; a. , soldierlike;
d'artillerie f artilleryman;
de cavalene, cavalryman;
du centre, v. centrier;
& cheval, trooper, mounted soldier;
conducteur, (Fr. a.) driver of (the regimental
de , soldierlike;
enfant, young, inexperienced soldier;
faux , falsely mustered soldier;
defortune, soldier of fortune;
h gages, mercenary;
du geme, engineer soldier;
d'infanterie, infantryman;
jeune , (Fr. a.) recruit (so called until he gets
through his recruit drill); from an administra-
tive point, member of the last class called into
service, exclusive of volunteer enlistments;
de (la) marine, v. s. v. marine;
musicien, bandsman;
ordonnance, soldier servant, "striker"
(U. S. A.);
d'ordonnance, orderly;
tipied, foot soldier;
de planton, orderly in waiting;
de plomb, tin soldier;
2)orteur d'outils. (Fr. a.) soldier skilled in the
use of certain tools (so called from his carrying
them in the field);
pourvoyeur, man who passes ammunition
from the caissons, etc.;
de premiere classe, (Fr. a.) private of the first
class (title won by good conduct and efficiency);
de rencontre, untrained soldier, any man
picked up and put into the ranks without regard
to fitness;
secretaire, clerk;
simple , private;
tender, (Fr. inf.) soldier detailed to Io9k after
an officer (dismounted) in the field (carries food
and various other articles, looks after the officer
if wounded, etc.);
du train, train soldier;
du train d'artillerie, train soldier;
irieux , old soldier.
soldatesque, a., soldierlike; f., soldiery, (esp.) undisciplined,
unbridled soldiery.
solde, f., (mil.) pay of an officer, noncommissioned
officer, or private; currently limited to officers'
(commercially) settlement.
(The following terms are military:)
h la de, in the pay of;
d'absence, half pay; leave and (Fr. a.) captivity
pay, one-half of the de presence;
( et) accessoires de , (pay and) allowances;
d'activite, active-duty pay;
avoir d, sa , to have in one's pay;
de captivile, v. d'absence;
de conge, leave pay;
dcmi , half pay;
ft, en, demi , on half pay;
de disponVnlile, (Fr. a.) waiting-orders pay
(generals and assimiles),
entiere, full pay;
entrer en , to begin to draw pay;
entree en , v. s. v. entree;
etat de , pay roll;
de guerre, war pay;
de marche, travel pay, travel allowance;
de non-activite, (Fr. a.) unemployed pay
(three-fifths for lieutenants and below, onehalf
for all others, if the officer is unemployed
through no fault of his own; two-fifths for all
grades, if the officer is unemployed through his
own fault);
de paix, ordinary pay;
_ de permission, v. de conge;
prendre&sa -. , to take into one's pay;
de presence, full duty pay, full pay;
de reforme, pay of the status of reforme, reduced
pay (two-thirds of the minimum retired
pay in the case of officers retired for physical
disability, one-half in the case of officers retired
for disciplinary reasons);
de re serve, (Fr. a.) pay of generals and of assimiles
who have passed into the cadre de reserve;
de relraite. retired pay;
de route, allowance on a march.
solder, v. a., to pay, settle, liquidate; (mil.) to pay
troops; (hence, in gen.) to keep, retain, in pay.
sole, f., sole, sill, sleeper; ground plate; bottom of a
flat boat; (hipp.) sole (of hoof); (met., etc.) furnace
bottom, hearth; dead plate; bed, sole, of a reverberatory
furnace; (art.) plate at the lower part of
some top carriages of the French marine artillery,
serving to keep cheeks together (obs.);
d'affut, (art.) transom of a gun carriage;
de bateau, flat bottom of a boat;
battue, (hipp.) v. solbature;
de bigue, step for the heel of a small shears;
bruUe, (farr.) burned sole (shoe put on too hot) ;
charnue, (hipp.) fleshy, sensitive, sole of a
horse's foot;
chauffee, (farr.) overheated sole (the hot shoe
held on too long);
cornee, (hipp.) horny sole;
d''embrasure, (fort.) sole or bed of an embrasure;
de foyer, dead plate, coking plate of a furnace
mobile d'affut, (F. m. art.) movable transom;
de sabord, (fort., nav.) port sill;
de sabot, (hipp.) sole of a horse's foot;
de taquel, step of a kevel.
soleil, m., sun; (artif.) fireworks having jets or
rocket as radii of a circle;
comme le , with the sun;
contre le , against the sun;
(ti) conlre du , against the sun;
couchant, sunset;
couchcr du , sunset;
coup de , sunstroke;
entre deux s, between suns;
d'eau, (artif.) water wheel for fireworks;
fixe, (artif.) fixed sun;
grand , midday ;
au grand ,*n the blaze of the sun;