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tampon 442 tarage
tampon, m., plug, stopper; pad; bung; dowel;
any plug for stopping a hole or acting as a
wad or stopper; internal gauge, internal cylindrical
gauge; lid of a water bucket; (sm. a.,
art.) tompion; (t. p.) bullet- (shot-) hole plug,
marking disk; (art.) part of a vent plug near
the surface of the bore; (wooden) wad for the
charge of a spherical projectile (obs.); (>" *".,
mack., etc.) buffer; (artif.) wad; - atmospherique, air buffer; - d'attelage, (r. r.) coupling buffer;
boite h-, inking and stamping pad;
- de bouche, (art.) muzzle tompion;
- de buffle, (sm. a.) wad; - de charge, (art.) gun wad (obs.);
- de choc, (art.) Belleville- spring, used as
safety device in case brakes should break;
(art., r.r.) buffer;
de choc & ressort, (art., r. r.) spring buffer;
- de combat, (nav.) shot plug;
coup de-, (r. r.) collision;
disque de-, (r. r. ) buffer disk; - d'ecubier, (nav.) hawse plug; - d'essieu, (art.) axlo buffer (Russian field
mortar);
faux--
, (r. r.) buffer box; - defeutre, (sm. a.) wad; - de fusee, (artif.) fuse disk of a rockot; (art.)
plunger of a fuse; - & galet, (art.) roller buffer; - hydraulique, hydraulic buffer;
- de lumiere, (art.) vent plug;
--masque, (sm. a.) gas guard of the Lebel
rifle; - du noble, boat plug;
ressort de- buffer , spring; - avec ressorts en caoutchouc (en volute), india
rubber (volute) spring buffer; - & rondelles de caoutchouc, india-rubber buffer;
- du seau d'affut, (art.) water-bucket lid;
- sec, (r. r.) springless buffer; - de surete, (art.) safety plug (of a fuse);
- taraude, screw plug; screw buffer;
tete de-, buffer disk;
tige de-, buffer guide rod;
-, trou de (met.) hole through which metal
flows;
-- de tube, (steam) tube plug; - h vis, v. taraude.
tamponnage, m., (action of) plugging; plugging,
stopping up.
tampoiinement, m., v. tamponnage.
tamponner, v. a., to plug up, to stop up; to tamp,
to pack down; (t. p.) to plug; (r. r.) to collide;
- une fusee, (artif.) to plug a rocket.
tamponneur, m., (t. p.) shot-hole plugger, man
who fills holes made by shots.
tan, m., tan bark.
tandem, m., open carriage driven tandem.
tangage, m., pitching motion (of a ship, of floating
bridge); overbalancing of a locomotive.
tangente, f., tangent.
tangon, m., (nav.) swinging boom.
tanglier, v. a., (nav.) to pitch; to be down by
the head;
- en arriere, to squat.
tangueur, m., lighterman.
tanin, m., v. tannin.
tannage, m., tanning.
tan ne'e, f., tan, waste tan, tan bark.
tanner, v. a., to tan.
tannerie, f., tannery, tanyard.
tannin, m., tannin.
taon, m., gadfly, horsefly.
- d'ecubier, (nav.) hawse plug; - d'etoupe, (art.) vent plug;
expansion, (art.) expanding tompion.
tape, f.. slap; plug, stopper; (art.) tompion;
- b,
tape-cu(I), m., drawbeam, counterpoise, of a
drawbridge;
atter &-, (cav. slang) to ride without stirrups.
taper, v. a., to slap, hit, strike; to plug up, to
stop with a plug; (drawing) to sketch freely;
(art.) to put in a tompion; v. n., (met.) (of
steel) to form or develop interior cracks;
un canon, (art.) to put in a tompion;
un cheval, to crimp the mane and tail of a
horse.
tapereau, m., kind of petard (obs.).
tapin, m., (mil., /am.) a drummer, esp. a poor
drummer.
tapis, m., table cover, carpet, rug; (harn.) saddle
cloth;
cheval qui rase le , v. s.v. cheval;
raser le , v. s. v. raser;
de selle, (harn.) saddle cloth.
tapurc, f.. (met.) interior crack or fissure (in large
ingots) caused by too rapid heating or cooling.
taque, f., (met.) plate, lining plate;
de gueulara, iron ring around the charging
hole of a blast furnace.
taqueret, m., fore plate of a forge hearth.
taquerie, f., (met.) stokehole of a reverberatory
furnace.
taquet, m., cleat, belaying cleat; stop cleat, hurter;
angle block; whelp of a capstan barrel; step
of a ladder; kevel; wedge; small picket, peg;
(mach., etc.) catch, stop, driver, tappet, detent;
(sm. a.) front part of the trigger guard (shaped
to receive the ramrod); locking brace; (art.
trunnion cleat;
d'arret, (art.) stop cleat; (sm. a.) bolt stop,
stop;
d'arrSt de console, (F. m. art.) tray catch;
arretoir, (sm. a.) bolt stop;
de baguette, (sm. a.) ramrod stop;
de baionnette, (sm. a.) bayonet-ring stop;
de bout, stop cleat ;
de butee, standard knee of a windlass; (r. f.
art. ) resistance piece ;
de cabestan, capstan whelp;
de ceinture, v. s. v. ceinture;
de chargement, (art.) loading, cleat or stud
(on various French carriages);
s d'un chartot d'canon, (art.) trunnion brackets
or cleats;
de chassis, (art.) front (or rear) wedge on
the chassis side rail (obs.);
s d'un chassis de moulage, (fond.) lips or flanges
of a molding flask;
de chevre, (art.) peg on the pole of a gin;
ticozur, kevel;
& come, belaying cleat;
corne de , arm, horn, of a cleat, or kevel;
courbe de bitte, standard knee of a windlass;
pour crochet de pontage, (pont.) block through
which the lashing hook passes;
h dent, snatch cleat;
de detente, tappet;
ecrou, (sm. a.) ramrod stop (threaded) (in
the front end of the guard);
d'embarrage, (art.) embarring bolt or cleat;
d'excentrique, (mach.) catch tappet, eccentric
catch; peg;
defer, hanging clamp;
fixe, stop;
en grain a'orge, stop cleat;
& gueule, snatch cleat;
de nage, flat thole;
oreille de v. corne de ;
,
& oreilles, thumb cleat or kevel;
de pente, (mil. raw.) slope template;
de pont, deck cleat ;
& ressort, spring cleat (sort of spring cushion);
de rctenue, (art., etc.) stop;
de surete, (r.f. art.) safety catch;
simple, belaying cleat ;
de tournage, belaying cleat;
de tr ingle, (pont.) kevel block;
tarage, m., allowance for tare; (inst.) calibration
(as, art., of a crusher);
force de . (art.) force of calibration, 1. e., the
force producing the final compression of a
crusher cylinder.