A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

travail 467 traverse
of work;
resistant, work necessary to overcome a
resistance;
en sens inverse, (mil. man.) work on a double
track (one squad on each, going in opposite
directions);
avec la selle, (mil. man.) riding exercises,
horse saddled;
aux de siege, (siege) sap work, trench work;
avec le surfaix, (mil. man.) riding exercises,
surcingle on;
ft la tache, work by the job, piecework;
aux de terrasse, de terrassement, (fort., r. r.,
etc.) earthwork;
ft la torsion, strain of torsion;
au tour, (mach.) lathe work;
de tranchee, (siege) trench work;
^-aux de tranchee, (siege) trench work or operations;
utile. (mach.) useful work, effective work;
ft vide, (man.) exercise, work, of a horse
without a rider; (mach.) work unloaded.
travail, quantite de , quantity
travailie, p. p., strained, overstrained;
avoir les jambes es, (hipp.) to be stiff in the
legs;
cheval (trop) , overworked horse.
travailler, v. a. n., to work, labor; to fashion,
work up; to execute with care; to open, work
open, spring, warp; (of material) to bear a
stress, to be strained; to work (i. e., prepare
material, as iron, wood, etc.); to get out of
plumb (of walls, etc.); (man.) to exercise a
horse; to overwork a horse; (nav.) to labor;
un cheval, (man.) to exercise a horse;
un cheval ferme d ferme, (man.) to work a
horse without advancing (as in the piaffer);
un cheval dans la main, (man.) to put a horse
through his paces by the hand alone;
un cheval de la main & la main, (man.) to
change hands;
un cheval de quart en quart, aux quatre
coins, v. s. v. quart;
au cisaillement, etc., to bear a shearing, etc.,
ensemble, to bear equally; to bear an equal
strain;
faire , to work, warp; to stress;
fin kg. par cm 2 , to bear a load of n kilograms
per square centimeter;
& main droite (gauche),
v. s. v. main.
travailleur, m., laborer, operative; mechanic,
artisan; close, hard, student or worker; (mil.)
member of a working party; any soldier doing
nonmilitary work; a soldier who has a trade
and is required to exercise it in the army;
d'infanterie, (siege) member of a working
party.
travat, m., (hipp.) horse with white marks on his
foet on the same side.
travel, f., (com., pont.) bay; (mil. r. r.) element of
a track (ready to lay down; of different lengths);
de culee, (pont.) shore bay;
pour les fusils, (sm. a.) arm rack, improvised
(two beams and a plank for the butts);
dejonction, (pont.) connecting bay (in bridge
by parts, or by rafts);
ouverture de , (pont.) span of a bay;
de rive, (pont.) shore bay.
travers, m., breadth; spring line; (art.) sling,
lashing-rope; (met.) transverse crack in a casting,
forging, etc., in a firearm, in a sword;
(nav.) side, broadside; beam;
ft , across, through;
de , crooked, awry, askew, the wrong way;
en , crosswise, across;
en -ft, athwart;
etre en de lame, to lie in the trough of the sea;
ouvrage en , (min.) cross system of mining;
par le , (nav.) on the beam, abeam; athwart;
(also) parallel, beam and beam;
travers, pied de , v. s. v. pied.
traversant, m., beam, lever, of a balance.
traverse, f., passage across ;crossroad; cross-beam,
-bar, -piece; whilfletree; horizontal stovepipe;
(cons., etc.) stay, brace, cross-framing, girder,
ground sill, crosspie e; (r. r., etc.) sleeper, crosstie;
(hydr.) sand, mud, etc., bank at the mouth
of a port; (surv.) traverse; (mach.) crosshead'
(fort.) traverse; (sm. a.) cross of a sword; firingpin
crosspiece; deflection slide; (art.) traversing
box, head, crosshead; partition board of an
ammunition chest; sleeper of a platform.
I. Fortification; II. Miscellaneous.
I. Fortification:
abri, v. s. v. abri;
d'attaque, traverse, place of arms, in a dry
ditch;
bras de inclined , postern under a traverse;
en capitale, traverse along the capital;
casematee, casemated traverse;
s conjuguees, conjugate traverses;
contre un commandement, traverse to screen
ft cremaillere, lock traverse;
creuse, hollow traverse, bombproof traverse:
de defilement, defilading traverse;
diagonale, diagonal traverse (axis oblique to
interior crest);
enracinee, attached traverse; traverse running
back to and joining the parados;
isolee, v. tournante;
magasin, magazine traverse;
perpendiculaire, traverse perpendicular to
the interior crest;
pleine, solid traverse;
relai, in a batterie rapide, natural ground
left between guns, upon which the earth excavated
for the terre-plein is thrown, and which
serves as a traverse on the completion of the
battery;
tournante, cube traverse;
de tranchee, part of the original ground left
as a traverse in a trench.
II. Miscellaneous:
d'appui, breast rail;
arbre de , crosstree;
fi arretoirs de poutrelles, (pont.) balk stop
cross bar of a pontoon wagon;
ft charniere articulee, (Fr. art.) (in 120 C.)
bar securing upper to lower carriage for traveling;
chemin de , crossroad;
de cheyalet, (pont.) trestle brace;
de cloison, (cons.) crosspiece of a partition;
ft cremaillere, (art.) toothed or notched traversing
head of a sight;
d'echafaud, (cons.) putlog;
defenetre, (cons.) window transom;
flottee, (cons.) crossbar concealed behind a
partition;
defrein, brake bar;
avec glissfere, (mach.) crosshead for sliding
guides;
grande , (mach.) main crosshead; (r. r.) weigh
bar;
Au grand piston, (mach.) main crosshead;
avec guides ft articulations, (mach.) crosshead
for link guides;
de grille, fire-bar bearing; crosspiece of a
grating;
d'imposte, (cons.) transom bar (French
window);
inferieure, (art.) lower sleeper (of a platform);
(cons.) bottom rail, weather rail (of a
door, of a window);
de joint, (r. r.) joint sleeper;
de limoniere, crossbar of a pair of shafts;
de linteau, (cons.) head rail;
lisoir, (art.) chock of a slide carriage;
d'une manivelle, shackle bolt;
mobile fi huit pans, shifting (octagonal) bar;