A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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chaiiiee, f., (surv.) chain-length.
cliainer, v. a., (sun.) to chain, chain off.
cluiiiictte, f . , small chain; catenary (curve) ; (harn.)
slobbering-chain; (sm. a.) (art.) stirrup;
arret, keep-chain;
d'enrayage, (art.) brake-chain;
former , to sag, bend down in the middle;
de servante, (art.) pole-prop chain;
de susbande, (art.) cap-square key chain;
& T, small chain and toggle.
chalneur, m., (surv.) chainman, (esp.) hind
chainman;
porte-chaine, hind chainman.
chainon, m., liak (of a chain); cable-length; (top.)
short chain of mountains;
en bois, link or element of a chain of logs
end to end.
chair, f., flesh; flesh side of leather; (r. r.) chair,
railway-chair;
cannelee, (hipp.) lamellar tissue of the foot.
d canon, (mil.) food for powder;
feuilletee. (hipp.) v. cannelee;
de pied, (hipp.) envelope of the interior parts
of the foot, keratogenous membrane; (/am.)
flesh of the foot;
veloutee, (hipp.) velvety tissue of the foot.
chaise, f., chair, seat; (cons.) frame, timber-work;
(r. r.) rail-chair; (mach.) hanger; (nav.) armor
shelf;
d articulation spherique, (mach.) ball-andsocket
hanger ;d
colonne, (mach.) post hanger;
de la cuirasse, (nav.) armor shelf;
d nervures, (mach.) ribbed hanger;
d rotule, (mach.) adjustable hanger;
de transmission et de renvoi, (mach.) hanger.
chaland,m., lighter;
d cheval, lighter for embarking horses (also
spelled chalan).
chaleur, f.,heat;
blanche, (met., etc.) white heat;
bouche de , heating pipe or flue;
conduit de v. bouche de , ;
coup de , sunstroke;
rouge, (met.) red heat;
soudante, (met.) welding heat;
spccifique, specific heat;
suante, (met.) welding heat.
chalit, m., bedframe, frame of a bed.
chaloupe, f., launch;
canonniere, (nav.) gunboat;
pliante, collapsible boat, folding boat;
d vapeur, steam-launch.
chalumeau, m., blowpipe;
a gaz, gas blowpipe.
chamade, f., (mil.) drum or bugle for a parley
with the enemy (obs.);
battre la to sound or beat a , parley; (fig.) to
surrender, yield.
chamailler, m., (mil.) slight skirmish, brush,
of no importance; v. n., to have a slight brush
with the enemy.
chambard, m., (mil. slang.) at the Ecole Polytechnique,
act of smashing the furniture, etc.,
of new cadets, making hay in a new cadet's
room.
chambarder, v. n., (mil. slang) at the Ecole Poly-
techinque, to smash the furniture, etc., of new
cadet's room.
chatnbrasce, m., (art.) ratio of chamber diameter
to caliber; (mil. min.) operation of preparing
or forming the mine chamber by the use of high
explosives (or of hydrochloric acid in calcareous
rock); operation of increasing the diameter of
a boring (by the same process); the minechamber
itself, prepared by high explosives.
chambranle, m., frame, casing; door or window
casing; (min.) frame of a mine gallery;
contre , outer or false casing.
chambre, f., room, chamber; Chamber of Deputies
(France); (art., sm. a.) chamber (for the charge
the projectile); chamber of a revolver; (art.) cavity,
blowhole, defect, honeycomb (bronze and
cast-iron guns);
d air, air-chamber; inner tube of a bicycle
tire;
ardente, (sm. a.) a circular recess or space in
rear of paper cartridge of first breech loader
used, to insure expulsion, combustion, of unburnt
parts of case;
& balles, (art.) bullet-chamber (of a shrapnel);
des canons, (fort.) gunroom (of a turret);
d'un canot, stern sheets;
de charge, (torp.) explosive chamber (of a
torpedo);
de chaudiere, boiler room;
de chauffe, fire-room, stoke-hole;
claire, camera lucida;
claire megaloptique, magnifying camera lucida
(Colonel Goulier's);
de combustion, (steam) fire-box;
de compression, (mil. min.) the (mathematical)
volume over which the interior effects
of an explosion are manifested; (mach.) the
(exaggerated) clearance of the Otto gas-engine
cylinder;
dcrasse, (sm. a.) v. ardente;
cylindrique, (art.) case for the bursting
charge of a shell;
d'cclatement, (art.) bursting space behind a
proving-ground target, admitting of the recovery
of shell fragments in experimental firing;
a feu, (art.) powder-chamber of a fuse;
defonderie, (fond.) defect, in a casting;
aux lampes, (fort.) lamp-recess of a powder
magazine;
aux lumi&res, v. aux lampes;
de la machine, engine-room;
de manoeuvre, des manoeuvres, (fort.)
working or operating room of a turret;
de mine, (mil. min.) chamber of a mine;
noire, (phot.) camera;
d poudre, (art.) powder-chamber (of a gun,
of a shell, of a shrapnel, of a fuse);
aux poudres, (jort.) powder-room of a magazine;
des poudres, (min.) powder-chamber;
du projectile, (art.) shot-chamber;
de rail, (r. r.) seat of a rail;
des rcgulateurs d'immersion, (torp.) balance or
"secret" chamber of the Whitehead torpedo;
d, de, sable, (art.) sand inclosure, or in-
closed sand-butt (proving ground, for safety
and for recovery .of projectiles);
de tir, (fort) gun-room of a turret;
du tiroir, (steam) valve-chest;
tournante, (met.) rotary chamber (of a mechanical
puddler);
d, de, vapeur, (steam) steam-chest; steamspace
of a a boiler.
chambrfi, a., (met.) blistered, honeycombed; (art.)
chambered (of a gun).
chambree, f., (mil.) number of men in one squadroom,
squad.
de , in charge of a squad, or barrack-room.
cliambrer, v. a. n., to chamber; (mil.) to mess
and live together in the same room or tent;
(mil. min.) to make the chamber of a mine,
(art., etc.) to chamber (a gun);
se , (art.) to become pitted or honeycombed
(of a gun).
charabreux, a. v., chambre.
chambriere, f., long whip, lunging whip; cartprop;
(cord.) lacing.
chameau, m. r camel;
d une bosse, dromedary;
d deux bosses, camel proper;
corps de x, camel corps of the Egyptian army.
chamois, m., chamois leather, shammy.
champ, m., field; edge (i. e., least dimension, as of
a plank, brick, etc.); (inst.) field, interior space
(of a telescope, etc.); (mil.) battlefield; (art.)
field (of fire);