A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

genie 204 giffard
genie, maritime, (nav.) naval construction; corps
of navalconstructors;
militnire, (mil.) military engineering; corps of
engineers.
genope, f., (card.) stopper, nipper; temporary
racking, seizing, or lashing;
casser les -
s, to break (the stops of a flag).
genoper, v. a. (cord.) to knot; to nip; to sqize, rack,
stop, frap; to jam, become jammed.
genou, m., knee; knuckled joint; loom of an oar;
(inst.) ball-and-socket joint; spindle and related
parts; joint, supporting joint; (pont.)
knee, timber, of a ponton.
(Except where otherwise indicated, the following
terms relate to the horse:)
& , (mil.) (ir commands) kneel.
n'avoir rien au aessous dcs x, to have slender
cannons with bad tendons;
argue, knee bent forward;
de boeuf, ox knee;
cambre, knock-knee; .
cercle, knee surrounded by osselets, i. e.,
affected with exostosis;
de charniere, (mach., etc.) ball-and-socket
joint;
hcoquiUes, (inst.) ball spindle;
creux, sunken knee, hollow or sheep knee;
creux:
efface,v.
monted, , (tech.) elbow-jointed, elbowed;
mojiterh , (tech.) to mount so as to form an
elbow;
demouton,v. creux;
de veau, thick, bulbous, knee.
geiiouillere, f., kneecap, kneepiece; kneepiece
of a boot; (harn.) knee pad; (art.) knee pad,
kneeling pad ( for the cannoneer that discharges
the piece); (mil. min.) miner's or sapper's
kneecap; (r. r.) hose between tender and locomotive;
(mach., inst.) toggle joint; (fort.) gen-
ouillere, so much of the interior slope as lies be-
tween the platform and the inner crest of the
embrasure; (in barbette batteries) height of
parapet above banquette;
hauteur de , (art.) height of trunnions above
the ground or platform (an incorrect expression);
(fort.) height of interior crest, or of embrasure
sole, above the surface of the platform.
gens, m. f. pi., people, men, company; (nav.)
crew, ship's cr.ew;
d'affaires, business men;
d'armes, v. d'epee;
sans aveu, vagrants;
de cheval, cavalry;
de cour, courtiers;
d'eglise, clergymen;
d'epee, (mil.) military men, soldiers;
de . guerre, y d'epee:
de lettres, literary men;
de mer, seafaring men;
no* , (mil.) our side, our people;
de pied, infantry;
de quart, (nav.) watch;
de robe, lawyers, the legal fraternity.
geodesic, f., geodesy.
gt'odesique, a., geodetic,
gf'ographe, m., geographer;
ingenieur , (nav.) nydrographer.
geographic, f., geography;
astronomique, astronomical geography;
economique, statistical geography (treats of
the resources of a country);
mathcmatique, mathematical geography;
militairc, military geography;
physique, physical geography;
politique, political geography.
geftlage, m. (Fr. a.) the service responsible for the
food and bedding of soldiers confined in either
civil or military prisons.
geologic, f., geology.
geologique, a. , geological.
geometre, m., geometer, mathematician; (top.)
surveyor, land surveyor;
arpenteur, man who fills in details of a survey;
tnangulaleur, triangulator.
geometric, f., geometry;
analytique , analytical geometry;
descriptive, descriptive geometry;
descriptive d, deux plans, ordinary descriptive
geometry;
descriptive par cotes, one-plane descriptive
geometry (fortification drawing and plans);
pratique, surveying;
projective, projective geometry;
du sentiment, (top., drawing) the representation
of the surface as approximately as possible
-to real character (of surface forms not susceptible
of rigorous representation).
geomgtrique, a., geometrical.
gSrance, f., management, administration, by an
agent.
gferant, a., managing, directing; m., agent, manager,
director; (Fr. a. adm.) agent of the engineer
corps authorized to make small payments
in matters of current service.
gerbe, f . , sheaf; column of water thrown up by a
torpedo; (art.) cone of spread, of dispersion,
sheaf of bullets, of shrapnel, fragments (ball.)
pencil or sheaf of trajectories:
de dispersion, (art.) cone of dispersion;
d'eclatement, (art.) cone of burst, sheaf of
fragments (of a shrapnel);
jusante, (art.) cone of dispersion, sheaf of
bullets of shrapnel on burst;
de justesse, (ball.) surface of revolution of a
courbe de justesse about the axis of abscissas;
noyau de la , (ball.) mean trajectory of a sheaf;
des trajectoires, (batt.) pencil or sheaf of trajectories.
gerber, v. a., to pile casks one on another; to make
up into sheaves.
gerce, f., crack, shake (hi wood); plank cracked
in its thickness.
gercer, v. a. r., (of wood) to become shaky, to become
full of shakes; to crack, cranny; tocrack (in
general).
gercure, f., crack, fissure; shake flaw
; (in wood);
crevice, chink, cleft; (art.) hair crack, hair line
(in armor, on the outer surface of guns, etc.)
flaw produced in the outer surface of bronze
guns by long service;
de trempe, (met.) crack produced by tempering.
germe, m., germ, seed; shoot;
defeve, (hipp.) mark in a horse's mouth.
gerseau, m., (cord.) small grommet or block strap.
geste, m., gesture;
divertissement, (mil.) warning gesture (to
attract attention);
- d''execution, (mil.) gesture of execution;
preparatoire, (mil.) preparatory gesture.
gestion, f., (adm.) administration: management
or performance of duties according to definite
rules, under the obligation of making returns,
(hence) officials or persons in charge of stores,
of moneys;
administrative, generic term for the performance
of any administrative duty;
de clcrc h maitre, v. directe;
collective, (Fr. a.) the administration of a
conseil d'administration;
directe, the direct performance of a service,
etc., by the government (i. e., without the
intermediary of a contractor) ;
manutcntionnaire, the actual handling of
stores or of moneys, in the performance of a
government operation, in carrying on a service.
gestionnaire, m., (adm.) functionary or official
responsible for the performance (gestion) of a
service; a., in charge, having charge of.
gibeciere, f., game bag.
gibelet, m., gimlet, borer.
giberne, f., (mil.) cartridge box (old pattern).
glbouiee, f., hail shower.
giffard, m.,
d' exhaustion, (mach.) ejector.