A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

talon 441 tamiser
talon, donner du ft un cheval, (man.) to spur a
horse;
donner un coup de , to strike, to touch, the
ground (boats);
entendre les s, (man.) to be spur-wise;
d'epee, (sm. a.) part of blade nearest hilt;
de I'essieu, joggle, tag, calkin;
Itre bien dans les s, (man.) to be spurwise;
de flasque, (art.) trail plate;
gros , (mil. slang, obs.) cuirassier;
dejet, (fond.) heel of a runner;
de lame, shoulder of a blade;
de mat, heel of a mast.
de la fioix, (sm. a.) back of the tumbler:
pincer des deux s, v. serrer les s;
de pont-levis, rear crossbeam of the platform
oi a drawbridge;
d'une poulie, shoulder of a block;
porter un cheval d'un sur I'autre, (man.) to give
a horse first one, then the other spur ;
promener un cheval dans la main et les s, entre
les deux s, v. s. v. promener;
de rcbondissement, (sm. a.) rebound shoulder
(on the hammer of a revolver);
de recepisse, v. s. v. recepisse;
repondre aux s, (man.) to obey the spur;
-
-rouge, formerly (under the old regime) a
nobleman;
serrer les s, (man.) to
sur les s de, close on the heels of;
de siiret.e, (art.) safety stud.
talonner, v. a., (mil. etc.) to follow, pursue closely;
(man.) to spur; (nav.) to strike aground aft.
talonnler, m., (mil.) color-staff shoe (i. e., for
pole of).
talpack, m., (unif.) busby.
talus, m., (steep) slope; sloping surface; talus;
(fort,) slope; (cons.) batter; (fan.) seating out
of a horseshoe;
aller en , to slope, batter, shelve;
d'amont, upstream slope of a dam;
d'a'-ai, downstream slope of a dam;
de banquette, (fort.) banquette slope;
de la oaUeric, (fort.) ep^ulment slope of a
battery;
d contre-ycnte, (fort.) countersloping glacis;
en contre-pente, (fort.) substitute for counterscarp
(proposed by Carnot, had a very gentle
slope);
de contrescarpe, (fort.) counterscarp slope;
& coulant, a,t its natural slope (of earth, etc.) ;
coupcr en , to cut slanting, with a feather edge;
donner du , disposer en , to slope;
en , sloping, slanting;
d'escarpe, (fort.) slope of the scarp;
fire en , v. aller en ;
exterieur, (fort.) exterior slope;
de flasques, (art.) slope of the cheeks;
interieur, (fort.) interior slope;
mettre en , to slope, etc.;
mise en , sloping (act of);
des-remblais, embankment slope;
de rempart, (fort.) terre-plein slope (joins
terre-plein to natural ground ) ;
des tranches, slope of a cutting.
talutage, m., sloping (act of).
taluter, v. a., to slope; to give a batter; to slant.
tambour, m., drum; (mach., etc.) drum,barrel, roll,
roller,cylinder, casing, chain drum; treadwheel;
(fort.) tambour; small traverse to prevent the
enfilade of a trench; (nav.) paddle box; (elec.)
dram armature; (powd.) granulating drum;
(mil.) drum, drummer, sound of the drum
(usually tambour is the performer, caisse the
instrument); (mil. slang) an eleve brigadier fourrier,^
(cores.) center (of a vaulted arch); drum
(cylindrical wall of a dome) ; drum (of a column,
of the core of a spiral staircase); point of junction
of several pipes; drum connecting two
pipes of unequal diameters;
tambour, le
appelle, (mil.) the drum is beat-
ing; the call is going;
aux s, (call) assembly of drummers;
baguette de , drumstick;
bander un , to brace a drum;
de basque, tambourine;
battant, by beat of drum, with drums beat-
ing; energetically, violently, thoroughly;
v. s. v, battement;
battement de ,
batterie de , beat of drum; (mil.) call or signal
by beat of drum;
battre du , to beat a drum;
battre le , to beat a drum (i. e., give a signal
Dy drumbeat);
bruit de , drumming:
caisse de , case, frame, barrel, of a drum;
caporal , v. s. v. caporal:
cercle de , flesh hoop of a drum;
de chargement, (r.f. art.) (Gatling) feed gear
(earliest type):
chasser un sotdat au son du , (mil.) to drum a
soldier out;
collier de . drum carriage;
conique, (mach.) cone pulley;
corde de brace of a , drum;
&, de, courroie, (mach.) drum of a belt; belt
pulley;
de crible, (artif.) composition sieve;
de cuivre, kettledrum;
dessus de , drumhead;
& emeri, emery wheel;
faiseur de s, drum maker;
defrottement, fritftion drum;
fut de . shell, case, of a drum;
grand cercle de , snare hoop of a drum ;
gros bass , drum;
guide, ( Fr. art.) grooved drum of a seacoast
sight (controlling the displacement of the
deflection scale and automatically correcting
for drift);
d'indicateur, (steam) indicator barrel;
induit en , (elec.} drum armature;
magasin, coiling drum (of a balloon rope);
major, (mil.) drum major;
maitre, (mil.) corporal of the drums; corporal
of field music (U. S. A.);
militaire, war drum;
d'oculaire, eyepiece tube (of a telescope);
en palanque, enpalissades,(fort.) stockade
tambour;
peau de , drumhead;
de porte, wind screen (of a door);
d'une poulie, sheave;
rappel pour les s, (mil.) quarter drum;
de roue, (nav.) paddle box;
roulcment de roll (of a drum) ;
roulant, orchestra or band drum (longer
body than the ordinary drum);
d'un tamis, (artif.) composition sieve; drum
of a mixing sieve;
tirant de , brace of a drum;
d'un treuil, barrel of a winch;
trou dufut d'un , drum hole;
vergette de -.drum hoop;
voile, muffled drum;
voiler un to , muffle a drum;
-. b vouter, (mil. min.) center for vaulted galleries.
tamis, m., sieve; separating sieve; screen; bolter;
de, en, crin, horsehair sieve;
a huile, oil sieve;
de passage, sieve, sand sieve;
passer au , to sift, screen;
de perce-canon, (powd.) canon-powder sieve;
deperce-mousquet, (powd.) rifle-powder sieve;
de, en, sole, (powd.) silk sieve;
d tambour, (artif.) mixing sieve;
de toile metallique, wire-gauze screen.
tamisage, m., separation by sieve or screen; sifting,
screening, bolting.
tamiser, v. a. n., to separate by sieve or screen; to
screen, to sift, to sift through, to bolt; to pass
through a sieve, a screen.