A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

marquer 553 mettre
marquer, v. t., to mark;
hfroid, to cold punch.
marqueur, m., (t. p.) marker, sandrat, (slang,
U. S. A.).
matron, m., chestnut;
& Incurs, (art.) composition producing flash
and smoke in a dummy battery (to deceive
aerial observation); flash maroon, smoke ball.
marteau, m., hammer;
de chaudronnier. boiler-maker's hammer;
de mise defeu, (art.) striker;
de percussion, (art.) striker.
martingale, f., (unif.) back strap (of an overcoat,
etc.).
masque, m., mask; (mil.) gas mask; cover;
d'arc-boutement, (mil. min.) tamping shield,
tail mask;
& rabattement (mil.) drop screen (to conceal
an observing slit);
respirateur, (mil.) respirator (for use m gas
attacks), gas mask;
pour tircur couche, cover lying down;
tiviseurs, (mil) gas mask fitted with a visor.
masse, f., (elec.) ground;
cuivre, copper mallet;
d'equilibrage, counterpoise, counterweight;
filh ia ; fiide (elec.) ground wire, wire to
ground;
manoeuvre, de manoeuvre, (mil.) maneuver
mass (so called; under the direct orders of
the supreme command, and to be used where
most needed as a combat develops; in certain
cases, in trench warfare, may be a mass of
mobile artillery);
polaire, (elec.) pole piece;
avoir un pole & la , (elec.) to be connected to
par quatre, (Fr. cav.) line of platoons in
column of fours.
masselotte, f., (trench art.) breech mass (V. D.
mortar);
& gorge, (trench art.) grooved plunger;
& ressort, (art.) spring plunger.
massif, a., powerful, well-organized, massed.
mat, m., mast; (aero.) strut;
de charge, boom;
& tripled, tripod mast.
materialise!-, v. t., to mark out, to indicate, materially.
mCcaiio, m., (slang) mechanician, driver.
mecano-morse, m., (wireless) automatic sending
key.
meclie, f.. wick; (artif.) fuse, match;
d'allumage, (artif.) lighting fuse;
d'amorce, (min.) starting drill;
blanche, (expl.) Brickford fuse;
enveloppante, (mil. min.) spiral oarth auger;
defumeur, tinder;
lente (expl.) slow match;
porte-feu, communicating match;
de mineur, (artif.) (a form of commercial)
Bickford fuse;
& ruban, v. blanche;
& temps, (art.) time fuse (not an official term).
medallion, m., insert, inset (small picture in a
larger one).
medecin, m., doctor;
en chef, (mil.) chief surgeon.
melange, m., mixture;
detonant, v. tonnant'
tonnant, (mach.) explosive mixture (explosion
engine).
melee, f., (mil.) mellay;
exercices de , (exercises to train the soldier for
hand-to-hand fighting, to develop a spirit of
decision at close quarters, to be astonished at
nothing that turns up, to be resourceful), handto-hand
drill.
memfore, m., member;
infer ieur, (med.) lower limb;
superieur, (mcd.) upper limb.
menotte, f., shackle (joining side to cross springs
of a vehicle).
mentonnet, m., catch, lug; (mach. gun) hand
sear.
mentonniere, f., (unif.) chin strap; (art.) maneuvering
bracket.
mercuriale, f., average price.
merite, m., merit;
ordre du agricole, (France) order of agricultural
merit (for persons who have distinguished
themselves in agricultural science).
messagerie, f., transportation (water and rail),
express service.
messe, f., (mil. slang) reprise or ride of the riding
masters at Saumur (used only in the expression
aller h la , to go and watch the riding masters
when they ride together).
mesurage, m., measuring;
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materiel, m., material;
de campagne, (mil.) field outfit, field fat;
chimique de guerre, (mil.) all chemicals and
chemical substances applied to war purposes;
& deformation, (art.) generic term for all
modern artillery material, as distinguished
from the obsolete types in which the various
parts had little or no motion with respect to
one another;
(dit) semi-fixe, (art.) semifixed materiel (may
be transported either by road or by rail).
maticre, f., matter;
civile, (law) civil cases;
contentie.use, (adm., etc.) matter involving
conflict of jurisdiction; administrative con
correctionellc, (law) cases of misdemeanor;
criminelle, (law) criminal cases;
repressive, (law) preventive measures.
matric.age, f., swaging; parts so formed.
matrice, f.. (adm.) tax register;
s cadastrales, tax registers of unimproved
property;
generale, general tax list or register.
matriciel, a., ledger (i. e., having to do with" the
ledger, relating to, or borne on or in a ledger)
rnecanicien, m., (aero.) driver, engineer.
mecanisme, m., mechanism;
de culasse ft coin horizontal, (art.) the Krupp
breech-closing system;
de culasse & vis, (art.) the screw breech-clos
ing system;
& glissitre, (mach.) any slide mechanism;
de tir, v. s. v., lir.
bureau de , office of weights and measures.
mesure, f., (fenc.) (the greatest distance at which
a man may reach his adversary with the bayonet)
reach.
metallisation, f., metallization.
metalliser, v. t., to metallize.
metal, m., metal;
de canon, gun metal;
ondule, corrugated metal.
metallo-plastique, a., (mach.) metallo-plastic
(said of a joint bearing by metal on a plastic
surface).
meteorographe, m., (aero.) meteorograph.
methylene, m., (chem.) methylene;
de bois, wood spirit, methyl alcohol.
metier, m., craft;
de rond de cuir, (fam.) chairwarming, e. g.,
routine desk work.
metro, m., (fam.) abbreviation of metropolitain, the
Paris underground.
metropole, f., home, home country; (in France)
France, as distinguished from the Colonies;
defense de la , (mil.) .
home defense, defense of
the mother country.
metropolitain, m., the underground at Paris.
mettcur, m., setter;
defeu, (mil.) firer (sets off bomb-launching
devices).
mettre, v. t., to put;
un cheval, (man.) to train a horse;