A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

feuille 179 m
feuille mattresse , longest blade of a carriage
spring;
minute, (top.) sheet on which minute is t
be drawn;
du personnel de I'officier en campagne
(Fr. a.) sort of personal report on officer's
qualities, kept in addition to feuillet (q. v.)
and taking the place of the latter on mobiliza
tion;
porter sur la , to insert, put, in the way
bill;
posterieure, (sm. a.) rear end of trigger
guard;
de poudre, (powd.) flake of powder;
de pontet, (am. a.) guard plate;
de pret, (Fr. a.) numerical sheet or list
drawn up by the captain every five days in
order to draw the pay of the men; men's pay
listde
rectification, (Fr. a.) sheet on which an
intendant de corps d'armee enters his decisions
about errors noted by him in the matter
of pay;
rectificative, interpolated sheet announcing
corrections, amendments, etc. ;
de ressort, plate, leaf, of a spring;
de route, (Fr. a.) voucher or order delivered
to a soldier (officer or man) or to a detachment,
traveling on duty, and showing
the itinerary to be followed and the allowances
due on the journey;
de sauge, (hipp.) point of a seton needle;
de solde, (mil.) pay sheet, pay rolls;
de idle, plate ofsheet iron;
de verification, (Fr. a.) memorandum of
observations (by controleurs or intendants)
made in venfying accounts, inspecting stores,
etc.;
volante, loose sheet (of paper, etc.).
feuilte, m., (top. drawing) foliage,
feuillee, f., leaves, branches; (mil.) camp hut
made of branches of trees; camp latrine (surrounded
by brushwood).
feuiller, v. a., to rabbet, groove.
feuilleret, m.', rabbet plane.
feuillet, m., sheet (two pages); thin plate; thin
stone or slate ; paneling plank; saw;
matricule. v. registre matricuie;
s mobiles, loose sheets on which are registered
names of all men called to the colors;
du personnel des officiers, ( Fr. a.) register
kept by the lieutenant-colonel of a regiment
(by the c. o. of a separate battalion, or the
head of a sen-ice) of the punishments inflicted
on officers, and on which are entered semiannually
notes on their private and proiessional
conduct;
a poing, handsaw;
de punitions, (Fr. a.) register of punishments
(of the men) kept in each company of
Infantry and in each regiment of artillery and
of cavalry; defaulter sheet;
de tir, ( Fr. a.) sheet in the livret individual,
setting forth the soldier's record at target
practice.
feuilleter, v. r., to split into thin plates.
feuillure, f., rabbet, rebate; groove; recess,
slit; (sm. a.) bolthead rim; space between
rear surface of chamber and bottom of
cu ette;
a tenon tt , tongued and grooved.
feuquire, f., pack-saddle bow.
feutrage, m., wad, wadding.
feutre, m., packing, felt; (harn.) gall leather,
piece oi leather under buckles, etc., to prevent
galling; safe; (sm. a.) leather on gun
sling to keep button from coming in direct
contact with wood of stock.
feutrer, v. a., to pack, pad (a saddle).
ffcve, f., bean; (hipp.) lampas, lampersde
cheval, horse bean;
germe de , (hipp.) marks of (a horse's)
mouth.
ffiverole, f., bean; horse bean.
nourri de s. bean-fed.
fiacre, m., cab, four-wheeler.
fibre, f., fiber, thread, string; grain (of wood);
invariable, v. neutre;
libcrienne, bark fiber;
ligneuse, wood fiber;
fibre, neutre, neutral fiber.
fibreux, a., fibrous, stringy.
flceler, v. a., to tie. bind; to wire;
de fil defer, io wire.
ficelle, f., pack thread, twine, string; (cord.) two
fils de caret (q. v.) laid up together;
de declenchement, releasing cord, valve cord
(of a balloon);
d fouet, whip cord.
flchant, a., v. feu fichant and coup fichant.
flche, f., stake, rod; hinge pin, hinge hook; plug;
hinge; bolt; rag-bolt; surveyor's pin; descriptive
card; distance a pile is or may be driven
into the ground; (mas.) pointing tool; (an.)
pointing stake; pin, stake; (fort.) plunging
character (of views, of fire);
anneau & , ringbolt;
chevilleti , rag bolt;
de commutateur, (elec.) plug;
& dents, mason's filling trowel;
de diagnostic, (Fr. a., med.) mark or ta^
put on wounded (red for severely hit, but
transportable; white for untransportable);
s de mobilisation, (Fr. a.) tables drawn up
in peace, and containing data useful on mobilization;
ordinaire b, double nceud et to, bouton, pin
hinge;
H plomb, plombee, (surv.) heavy pin
used in cultellation;
de pomtage, (art.) aiming stake or pointing
rod in mortar practice;
.? de transport, ( Fr. a.) tables giving places of.
embarking, etc., on mobilization;
& vase, butt-hinge.
flchee, f., ramming depth (of a pile, etc.).
flcher, v. a. n., to pin, pitch, drive, thrust, stick,
or fasten in; (of lines, when prolonged) to
plunge into, to bo prolonged into; (mas.) to
point with mortar, plaster.
fldelite, f., loyalty; allegiance;
sermcnt de , oath of allegiance.
ficluciel, a., fiducial.
fifcvre, f., fever;
des armces, militaire, typhus fever.
flflot, m., (mil. slang) infantry soldier, dough boy,
mud crusher.
flfre, m.,fife, fifer;
premier , fife-major.
flgement, m., congealing, coagulation.
figer, v. a. n., to congeal, become congealed; to set,
become set; (met.) to "freeze."
figuratif, a., figurative, symbolic.
figuratif, m'., figured way of representing a thing;
any diagram;
de tir, (art., sm. a.) plot of shots at target
practice.
figure, f., face, figure; diagram; number;
(fenc.) position (of the body, arm, or
sword);
conduire un cheval par la , to load a horse by
the head;
schematique, theoretical diagram (showing
relations of parts).
figure, p. p., figured, representative; m., (top.)
shape, appearance; representation (by a diagram,
plan, or sketch);
ennemi , v. s. v. ennemi;
particulier, (top.) conventional sign;
plan , representative plan;
An terrain, (top.) representation of the
ground (as plowed, woods, etc., by special
signs).
flgurer, v. a., to figure, represent; (top.) to
represent.
fll, m., thread; string; fiber; wire; chain; yarn;
grain (of wood, etc.); edge (of a cutting weapon
or tool); stream; vein, crack;
d'accouplement, (expl.) primer wire (joins
two primers), fuse wire;
d'acier, steel wire;
aerien, overhead wire;
d'aller. (elec.) lead wire (is the insulated wire
when only one of a pair is insulated);
d'amorce, priming wire;
d'araignee, spider line;
d'archal, brass wire;
d' 'argent, (farr.) a rasp of the file given to a
horseshoe at the toe and elsewhere to take off
sharp edge;