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Cquipage d'armce, (pant.) the bridge train of an
army;
s de Varmee, (mil.) all the transport of an
army;
s d'artillerie, (Fr. art.) a generic expression for
artillery trains and parks, and ammunition
columns (two subdivisions, s de campagne,
sde siege);
d'artillerie d'une armee, battery material and
supplies of ammunition, and of material in general,
i. e., ammunition sections, corps parks, and
grand pare;
d'atelier, machinery, etc., plant of a shop (arsenal,
navy-yard, etc.);
d'avant-garde, (pont.) advanced guard bridge
equipage;
s de campagne, (mil.) the baggage of an army
in the field; ( Fr. art.) a generic expression for
army and corps (artillery) trains, mountain
equipage, and fortress (mobile defense) equipage;
de corps djarmee, (art.) the divisional and
corps artilleries, with their respective ammunition
sections, the infantry ammunition section,
and the artillery park;
de corps de troupe, (Fr. a.) regimental train
(train regimentaire and train de combat)!
demi , v. de siege;
de division, v. d 1
avant-garde;
de division decavalerieindependante, two horse
batteries;
de montagne, (Fr. art.) mountain equipage,
i. e., the various batteries and ammunition sections
assigned to mountain duty;
normal, v. de siege;
de place, (Fr. art.) the mobile batteries used
in the defense of a fortress;
de pompe, (mach.) pump gear;
de pont, (pont.) bridge train, bridge equipage;
de pont d'armee, (pont.) bridge train of an
army, the sum of the two corps trains;
de pont de campagne, (pont.) the full name of
the bridge train of an army in the field;
- de pont de corps d j
armee, (pont.) the corps
bridge train;
de pont de place, ( Fr. a.) fortress bridge train
(maintained at Besaneon, Lyons, Toul, and
Versailles);
s regimentaires, (Fr. a.) regimental wagons,
train;
de requisition, (mil.) horses, wagons, etc.,
taken from the country on requisition;
de reserve, (mil., pont.) reserve bridge train;
de siege, (siege) siege train (generally .the artillery
siege train is meant); consists in France of
5 equipages normaux, each comprising 176 guns
and mortars of various calibers (exclusive of
r. f . guns) and 7,300 rounds, and subdivided into
demi leger (80 guns) and demi lourd
(96 guns);
de siege de Vartillerie, (siege, art.) artillery
siege train, the siege train proper;
de siege du genie, (siege, eng.) engineer siege
train (tools, implements, mining outfit, etc.);
train des s, (mil.) baggage train; train;
de transport, (mil.) the wheeled elements of
a siege park, etc.;
de vaisseau, (nav.) ship's company, crew.
fiquipe, f., gang, set, squad; crew or gang (of workmen),
working party; train of boats; (art.) number
or party of men necessary to execute a
mechancial maneuver;
chef d' , foreman of a gang of workmen.
fcquipCe, f., foolish and reckless undertaking.
equipement, m., equipment, outfit; fitting out;
stores, equipage; (mil.) accouterment, equipment,
(Fr.a.) exclusive of clothes and of arms;
de cheval, horse appointments, horse furniture;
grand , (Fr. a.) belts, gun- and haversackslings,
haversacks, etc. (no longer an official
term);
equipement, petit , (Fr. a.) brushes, cleaning
kit, small articles generally (no longer an official
term) ;
de la lere (Seme) portion, v. effete de la lire
(Seme) portion.
fiquiper, v. a. r., to equip, fit out; to provide, supply,
furnish, stock; to arm, man; (art., etc.) to
ng (a gin, capstan, etc.); (art.) to take equipments;
to furnish a piece with all the equipments
necessary to its service;
& n brins, (art., etc.) to rig or equip with an
n-fold tackle;
une chevre, (art.) to rig a gin;
une chevre en cabestan, (art.) to rig a gin as a
capstan;
une chevre & haubans, (art.) to rig a gin as
shears;
une fusee, (artif.) to fix a stick to a rocket.
Cquipeur, m., (sm. a.) finisher (in assembling
parts);
monteur, stripper and finisher, armorer who
assembles, etc., small arms (performs the dutios
of equipeur and of monteur, q. v.).
Equitation, f., (man.) equitation, horsemanship;
diagonale, a system of horsemanship of whir'h
the base is the development of the action of the
horse's diagonals;
ecole d* , riding school;
maitre d' , riding master;
militaire, military riding;
rassemblee, riding, equitation, so called from
the necessity of the horse getting his hind Ic rs
well under him in the execution of the various
airs.
Grable, m., maple tree, maple wood.
Graflement, m., (art.) scratch, score, in the bore of
a gun (produced by bursting of shell in bore).
erafler, v. a., to scratch, graze, score.
Craflure, f., slight scratch.
eraillC-, a., (cord.) worn out, frayed.
ftrailler, v. a. r., to rub, gall, fret, chafe, fray.
feraill ure, f., fraying, galling, charing.
Erection, f., erection, raising, establishment.
Creinte, p. p., broken-backed; tired out; worn out.
Creinter, v. a. r., to break the back; tire out, knock
up; to be tired out, knocked up.
erg, m., erg.
ergot, m., hook, spur; toggle; ergot, sort of fungus
in oats and other cereals; (hipp.) ergot.
eriger, v. a., to erect, establish, institute; (fort.) to
throw up (works, parapets, etc.).
ermine tte, f., carpenter's adz.
erosif, a., erosive (as, of powder gases in bore of
rosioi ion, f., erosion; (art.) erosion of the bore.
erre, f., (nav.) way, headway, steerageway.
erreur, f., error;
de la division, (inst.) error of graduation;
de fermeture, (surv.) error of closure, closing
error;
de graduation, v. de la division;
graphique, the error on the map, correspond-
. ing to the actual error in the field, scale error,
the field error reduced to the scale of the map;
instrumentale, (inst.) instrumental, index
error;
de lecture, (inst.) error of reading;
de niveau apparent, (surv.) error of apparent
level;
:
d observation, (inst.) error in observing, observation
error;
de pointage, (t. p.) error of aim;
de pointe, (inst.) error of sight;
de refraction, refraction error;
de reglage, (t. p.) distance between point of
impact and point aimed at (single shot); distance
between center of impact and point aimed
at (group of shots);
de
sphericite, (surv.) error of sphericity;
de visee, (t.p.) error of aim (rifle in a rest).
ers, m., fitches, vetches; tares.
erse, f., iron cringle, thimble; (cord.) strap, grommet;