A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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boussole topographique, surveyor's compass;
h, viseur, compass fitted with a sighting
tube.
bout, m., end; extremity, tip, nib; butt;
& , end to end;
de en , from end to end;
pour , end for end;
d'affut, (art.) trail-plate;
Ion , (cord.) hauling part of a warp;
le bon , the lower layer of leather composing
the heel of a shoe;
de cordage, de corde, (cord.) rope's
end; de crosse, (art.) trail-plate;
de crosse-lunette, (art.) trail-plate and
lunette;
decommis, (cord.) fag end of a rope;
d'essieu, axletree end;
faire mordre le , (cord.) to fasten an end down
per; de canon, (sm. a.) breech-pin;
a clavette, (mach.) collar, collar-pin;
de commutateur, (elec.) switch-plug;
de contact, (elec.) contact key or plug;
bouton coulant, (harn., etc.) sliding button or
loop;
de culasse, (art.) knob of the cascable;
(sm. a.) breech-pin; (r. f. art.) adjusting-ball
(Gatline);
du cylindre, (sm. a.) lug joining cylinder
and bolthead (French, model 1874);
ecrou, (sm. a.) firing-pin nut; thumbpiece
(nut to which firing-pin is attached in boltguns);
d'etai, (cord.) mouse of a stay;
farcineux, (hipp.) farcy-bud;
de fiche, hinge pin;
filete, (sm. a.) threaded (breech) end of a rifle
barrel;
de fourreau, (sm. a.) bayonet-scabbard tip
or button;
de manivelle, (mach.) crank-pin;
de mire, (art.., sm. a.) front sight;
mobile, (harn.) running button;
mollete, milled head;
en olive, knob, handle;
poussoir, firing-button (Maxim machine
gun);
de reptre, ( Fr. art.) v. s. v. repere;
firessort, (elec. etc.) spring-button;
de sonnerie, (elec.) bell-push, push-button;
de tir, firing-button (Maxim machine
gun);
de tournevire, (cord.) Turk's head;
d, vis, (r. f. art.) screw stud, cascable, cascable
button (Gatling, Gardner).
boutonner, v. a., to button; (fenc.) to touch,
boutonniere, f., buttonhole; (harn.) running-
. loop; (unif.) distinctive mark worn on the
collar by officers of the territorial army in
France; good-conduct badge of military convicts
in French army.
bouvet, m., (carp.) grooving-plane.
bouveter, v. a., (carp.) to tongue and groove, to
groove.
box, m., loose box (stable).
boxe, f., boxing, art of boxing.
boxer, v. n., to box.
boyau, m., (siege) boyau, zigzag; connecting
under a seizing;
filete, any threaded end (as, sm. a., of a
ramrod);
de fourreau, (sm. a.) chape of a scabbard;
de'garant, (cord.) fall of a tackle;
gros butt end , (of timber);
gros du moyeu, hind end of nave;
de lance, (sm. a.) shoe or socket of
lance;
libre, (cord.)
a
free end of a rope;
de madrier, block, skid;
de masselotte, (fond.) deadhead;
du nez, (hipp.) muzzle;
petit du moyeu, fore end of the nave;
de pied, (art.) prypole head;
& portant, (ball) point-blank.
boutant, a., used only with arc.
boute, f., water-cask, tub.
boute, a., (hipp.) straight-legged;
cheval horse whose , legs are straight from
knee to coronet.
boute-charge, m., (Fr. a.) trumpet call, signal
for placing loads on horses or in wagons (train,
convoys, and expeditions in Africa; used also
by artillery and qavalry and sometimes by
infantry in the field).
boute, f., (fort, pont., etc.) abutment.
boute-en-train, m., (hipp.) stallion turned loose
with mares.
boute-feu, m.. (art.) linstock (obs.).
bouteille, f., bottle; (mach., etc.) any elongated
vessel;
alimentaire
! (steam) feed apparatus used
before invention of Giffard injector;
de Leyde, (elec.) Leyden jar;
& poudre, (mil. min.) elongated receptacle
for charge;
en tole, (mil. min.) receptacle for charge,
0.3m in diameter.
bouterolle, f.. bushing; snap, snap head of a
rivet; riveting set; ward (of alock, key); (sm. a.)
escutcheon, bushing, recoil bushing (of a
revolver); (sm. a.) fence; (sm. a.) chape of a
scabbard;
de butee, (art.) prypole bearing (of a
de corps deplatine, (sm. a.) fence;
de detente, (sm. a.) trigger bushing;
d rivet, snap.
boute-selle. m., (mil.) boots and saddles (practically
obs., Fr. a.)
boutisse, f., (mas.) header; (fort.) sod laid headerwise,
head-sod.
boutoir, m., (/arr.) butteris, buttrice;
& guide, butteris used in Charlier system of
trench between parallels or places of arms;
(mil. min.) small gallery, branch, of a mine;
(in gen.) pipe, hose; (hipp.) belly, flank;
de communication, de tranchee, (siege)
zigzag, trench between parellels, between places
of arms.
brabant, m., iron strap
shoeing.
bouton, m., button; stud, lug; knob, handle;
(r. /. art.) crank-stud (Hotchkiss); (sm. a.)
thumb-piece; threaded end of barrel; (fenc.)
button of a foil;
d' amorce, (art.) primer-plug (fuse);
d'anet
} (cord.) any knot limiting motion of
'
a loop, slide, etc.;
arretoir, (sm. a.) stop;
de bielle, (mach.) crank-pin;
de bosse, (cord.) knot or crown of a stop-
or band;
hfourche, forked hold fast;
d patte, holdfast, brace, clip.
bracelet, m., bracelet, anv ring or circular band
(esp. of metal); (sm. a.) band of a sword-' of a
bayonet-, scabbard; (art.) loop of a lanyard;
-
explorateur, (man.) Marey's pneumatic
bracelet, for registering gaits by compressed
air;
pontet, (sm. a.) band and bow of the French
infantry rifle (Lebel).
bracon, m., strut.
brague, f., (nav. and s. c. art.) breeching, breechtackle;
de canon, breech-tackle;
croc de , breech-tackle hook.
braguet, m., (cord.) heel-rope.
braguette, f., front opening of trousers; (cord.)
heel-rope.
brai, m., tar, pitch; rosin;
pros, mixture of tar, colophany, and pitch;
tar;
sec. pitch.
braie, f., (fort.) bray, advanced wall projecting
from tower over main entrance of fortress
(obs.);
fausse , (fort.) false bray (obs.).
braise, f., (wood) coals.
braisine, f., (fond.) molding sand mixed with
cow dung.
brancard, m., shaft (of a wagon); handbarrow;
iron shoe of a drag; (med.) litter, stretcher
(for wounded); (art., etc.) side rail (of a caisson,
ammunition wagon, etc.);
de caisse, wagon-body side bar (in wagons
having de hmoniere, q. v.);
cheval de , off-wheeler;
de limoniere, side rail in prolongation of
shafts of certain two-wheelers;