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monte-charge(s) 279 moral
monte-charge(s) h barbotin, (art.) winch,
windlass of (the French) garrison gin;
a bennes alternatives, ( Fr. s. c. art.) counterpoise
or alternating shell hoist ;
ti commande, power hoist;
1>.:ifdrantique , (art.) hydraulic shell lift;
d, la main, hand elevator.
monter uneriviere, to ascend a river;
en serie. v. en tension;
* tant d'hommes, (nav.) to have a crew of so
many men;
se , (man. ) to be ridden ;
en tension, (elec.) to connect up in series;
une tente, to pitch a tent;
la tranchee, (mil.) to serve a tour of guard
in the trenches;
en triangle, (elec.) to make a delta connection;
& trois fils, (elec.) to install, wire, under the
three-wire system;
un vaisseau, (nav. ) to command a ship; to fly
one's flag on (such and such) a ship; to man
a ship;
sur un vaisseau, to embark.
moute -courroie, m., (mach.) device for mounting
a belt on a pulley.
monte-culasse, m., (art.) tool used in mounting
and dismounting Hotchkiss revolving
cannon.
montee, f.. ascent; rise, rising approach,
ramp; flight of stairs, stair; height (of- a
building, of a column, etc.); pitch, height
(of an arch); height (of a bridge); gradient
(of a road).
monte-escarbilles, m., ash hoist.
monter, v. a. n.. to mount, ascend; to go,
come, up; to rise; to rise (of the barometer,
thermometer); to rise in one's profession;
to raise; to rise, come in (of the tide); to
furnish, supply, stock, equip, fit out; to
ship (as, a propeller); to assemble, erect,
fit up, put or fit together, mount, put in
place; to horse (give a mount to); to be too
high (as, a wall); to ride (a bicycle); (man.)
to ride; (art.) to mount (a gun on its carriage);
(nav.) to go on board of, embark;
to command (a vessel); (mil.) -to be promoted;
(elec.) to connect up, to wire; (hipp.) to
serve, cover, leap;
hVanglaise, (man.) to ride with the English
seat, to monte-ressort, m., (sm. a.) lock cramp, spring
hook; spring cramp; spring \ ise.
monte-systeme, m., (Fr. art.) frame used in
mounting the canon fi balles.
monteur, m., engine fitter; (sm. a.) gunstock
fitter; (mil. teleg.) lineman (puts up
the line);
en blanc, (sm. a.) gunstock maker;
fourbisseur, (sm,. a.) scabbard maker.
montgolflere,f., hot-air balloon.
monticule, m., (top.) small hill, hillock;
en , tumular.
mont-joie, f., pile of stones to mark a road.
montoir, m., (man.) mounting block; horse
block; near side; bearing of the foot in near
stirrup (in mounting);
post;
aiseau , easy to mount;
a I'assaut, (mil.) to storm;
cote du ,
un ballon, to go up, or be, in a balloon;
un bailment, (nav.) to hoist one's flag on,
to fly one's flag on (such and such) a vessel
(of a flag officer);
une batterie, (art.) to arm and equips
battery; (elec.) to set up and connect a
battery;
le bivac,( mil.) to prepare a bivouac for the
night;
d la breche, (mil.) to storm a breach;
un canon, (art.) to mount a gun;
& cheval, (man.) to mount a horse; to ride;
(hence) to put anything astraddle of something
else;
un cheval, (man.) toride; to train a horse;
un cheval d, nu, d poll, (man.) to ride
bareback;
un chronometre, to wind a chronometer;
en croupe, (man.) to get on behind;
un creuset, (met.) to rerne It a crucible of
metal;
& cru, (man.) to ride bareback;
en derivation, (elec. ) to mount, connect, in
multiple circuit ;
difficile (facile) & , (man.) hard (easy) to
mount;
& dos, (maw.) toride bareback;
une epee, (sm. a.) to put the hilt on a
sword;
en etoile, (elec.) to make a star grouping;
faire -. to bring, take, get up (as, guns, etc.);
un fleuve, to ascend a river ;
unfusil, (sm. a.) to stock a rifle;
la garde, (mil.) to mount the guard; to serve
a tour of guard duty;
sa garde, (mil.) to serve a tour of guard
duty;
en grade, (mil.) to be promoted;
une hache, to helve an ax;
par haut, (man.) to exercise horse in curvetting,
in executing croupadcs;
en lunette, (mach.) to mount in or on a shell
chuck;
en marchand de cerises, (mil. slang) to ride
badly;
sur mer, to embark;
du, monde, to turn out the hands, the crew;
une montre, to wind a watch;
un navire, (nav.)to be on board;
entre les piliers, (man.) to take a turn on
a sfiuteur (jumping horse fastened between
posts);
a
poilnUj (mem.) to ride bareback;
e,i qj,inMe, {elec.) to join up, connect, wire,
in parallel;
near side ;
cdte hprs du . offside;
difficile au hard , to mount;
docile, doux, au , v. aise au ;
hors , hors le , off side;
pied du near foot , ;
pied hors du , off foot;
rude au' , v. difficile au .
montre, f., watch; show case; sample; (mil.
muster, pay when mustered (obs.); (man.)
showing a horse's paces; place where horses
are shown, paraded, etc., for sale; (fenc.)
ert of a fencing hall in which the foils are
pt;
marine, chronometer;
a repetition, repeater;
& repos, stop watch;
d, sonnerie, striking watch.
montrer, v. a., to show, display; to teach;
un cheval, to show off a horse;
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unfeu, to display a light;
un pavilion, to display a signal.
monteux, (top.) hilly, mountainous.
monture, f., mounting, fitting, setting; workmanship;
frame; support; (man.) mount,
nag, hack, hackney; (nav.) arming and
fitting a ship of war; (harn.) headstall
(and related parts); (sm. a.) hilt and related
.parts of a sword, of a sword bayonet;
stock plate of a revolver; stock of a rille;
s d'une bouche h feu, (art.) moldings of a
gun;
de bride, (harn.) headstall;
en deux pieces, (sm. a.) rifle stock in two
pieces (butt and forearm separate) ;
d'eperon, spur chain, leather;
de fusil, (sm. a.) stock;
d'officier, (cav.) officer's mount, charger;
petite , (mil.) cleaning kit and small articles
(spoon, comb, etc.);
de sabre, (sm. a.) hilt;
de scie, saw handle.
inoque, f., (cord.) dead-eye, bull's-eye;
poulied -
, dead-eye, block;
& rouet, clump bloc!:;
d trois trous, oblong three-holed dead-eye;
d trous, truck, fair leader.
morailler, v. a., (hipp.) to use a barnacle.
morailles, f. pi., (hipp.) barnacle.
moraillon, m., bolt nab, catch; hasp;
fermer au to , hasp, clasp;
et tourniquet, hasp and turn-buckle.
moraine, f., moraine; (mas.) fillet of mortar in
pise" work.
moral, m., spirit, morale of troops (Anglicized
into morale).