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A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

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miir 285 mutation<br />

niur en ailes, wing wall;<br />

en I'air, overhanging wall; - d'appui, breast wall;<br />

-- aveugle, blind wall;<br />

a bahul, (fort.) semidetached wall, so arranged<br />

as to permit firing over it;<br />

de bataille, (met.) tunnel head (in open-top<br />

blast furnaces, a sort of chimney surrounding<br />

the charging hole to protect the workmen from<br />

the flames); - de bailment, house wall;<br />

boucle, bulged or bulging wall (face separated<br />

from the mass);<br />

de calage, (fort.) a sort of supporting wall for<br />

the back of a gun platform (top flush with the<br />

platform);<br />

de chemise, revetment wall;<br />

- de chute, sluice lift wall, lift wall;<br />

de cloture, inclosing wall;<br />

<strong>com</strong>mun, v.mitoyen;<br />

cordre-- v. , contrc-mur; - coupe, wall with cuts, etc., for girders;<br />

- corrompu, wall ready to fall; - crenele, (fort.) crenelated, loop-holed wall;<br />

wall prepared for defense; - crept, rough-cast wall; - de culec, abutment wall of a bridge;<br />

de-<br />

, mural; - dc , en, decharge, relieving wall;<br />

- dechausse, wall decayed or destroyed at its<br />

foot;<br />

de defense, v.crenele;<br />

- degrade, damaged wall; - demi-detache, (fort.) semidetached wall;<br />

- dctache, (fort.) detached wall; - deverse. wall leaning over; - de dossier, a wall rising above the roof and<br />

forming a sort of backing for the chimney;<br />

- de douve, interior wall of a reservoir;<br />

- d'ebrasement, splay or wing wall;<br />

- d'cchiffre, string wall of a stair;<br />

- d'enceinle, inclosing, main, wall; walls;<br />

enduit, plastered wall;<br />

escarpe, scarped wall; - exterieur, out wall, exterior wall;<br />

- de facade, ,- deface, front wall;<br />

- forjete, overhanging wall, wall leaning over;<br />

- de foyer, fire bridge; - defuile, sluice wall, wall of a sluiceway;<br />

- de garde, parapet, breast wall; guard wall of a<br />

foundation;<br />

gratler le-<br />

, (man.) in riding hall, to go too close<br />

to the wall, to hug the wall;<br />

gros-, main wall; - de hourdage, rubble wall; - interieur, interior, partition, wall;<br />

- lateral, side wall; - de masque, (fort.) mask wall; - mitoyen, <strong>com</strong>mon wall, party wall;<br />

marts-s, walls ota melting furnace;<br />

- saws moyen, private wall (i. e., not a party<br />

wall); - orbe, dead wall;<br />

aurde, ill-built wall;<br />

pan de-<br />

, panel of a wall;<br />

parer au- . (fenc.) to parry the thrusts (tierce<br />

and quarte) of a beginner; - de parpaing, perpend wall; %<br />

- pendant, wall ready to crumble or fall;<br />

- en pierre seche, dry wall;<br />

de pignon, gable wall; wall with a ridge top;<br />

-r plante, wall built on piles or on a grillage;<br />

- plein, dead wall; - portant fifaux, v.- en Vair;<br />

de pourtour, exterior wall;<br />

enlre quatre-s, in prison; - rampant, sloping or climbing wall;<br />

-- recoupe, countersloping wall,battered wall;<br />

- refractaire, fireproof wall; fire wall of a forge;<br />

- de refend, partition wall;<br />

de - remplage, rempli de blocage, de hourdage,<br />

coffer wall; - de reservoir, reservoir wall;<br />

-- en retour, return wall;<br />

mur de revers, back wall;<br />

de revetement, revetment wall;<br />

sans jours, sans autre construction, dead<br />

wall;<br />

du sas, lift wall;<br />

de separation, v. de refend;<br />

souffle, v. boucle;<br />

lie soutenement. retaining wall;<br />

en surplomb. overhanging wall;<br />

table de , wall plate;<br />

en talus, talute, scarp, sloped wall;<br />

de terrasse, supporting wall of a terrace;<br />

de lite, (forl.) head or end wall of a casemate;<br />

tirer au , (fcnc.) of a beginner, to practice<br />

thrusts in quarte and in tierce; ,<br />

' 'en traverse, crosswall, (sometimes) dwarf wall;<br />

de vent, blast wall of a furnace.<br />

murage, m., masonry, walling;<br />

de chaudiere, boiler setting.<br />

muraille, f., wall; wall of a city, of a fortress; (nav.)<br />

side of a ship; (hipp.) wall crust of a horse's<br />

foot;<br />

attaque en , (mil.) charge of cavalry<br />

without intervals;<br />

s de bois, (nav.) "wooden walls";<br />

s de Prusse, artificial inter bed;<br />

in line<br />

de revetement, revetment wall;<br />

tirer d la , (fenc.) v. s. v. mur.<br />

muraillement, m., walling (especially of galleries,<br />

shafts, etc.);<br />

double , (met.) exterior walls of a blast furnace.<br />

murailler, v. a., to wall, to wall in; to support by a<br />

wall; to line with masonry, (as, a shaft, etc.).<br />

mural, a., mural;<br />

carte e, (inst.) wall map;<br />

cercle , (inst.) mural circle.<br />

mur6, p. p., walled, walled up;<br />

non unwalled;<br />

,<br />

ville e, walled town.<br />

mureau, m., (met.) tymp arch.<br />

murer, v. a., to wall, wall up, wall in.<br />

murier, m., mulberry tree.<br />

museau, m., snout, muzzle; nose (of a pipe, etc.);<br />

x de I'essieu, (nav. art.) axle ends;<br />

de la tuyere, (met.) blast nozzle.<br />

muse,m .,museum;<br />

d'artillerie, artillery or military museum,<br />

collection of arms.<br />

museler, v. a., to muzzle; to gag, silence;<br />

un croc, (cord.) to mouse a hook.<br />

museiiere, f., muzzle, .noseband.<br />

muserolle, f., (harn.) noseband.<br />

musette, f., nosebag; pouch; (mil.) haversack,<br />

bag; (mus.) (a poetic name for) bagpipe;<br />

de cavalier, (mil.), brush bag;<br />

mangeoire, (harn.) nosebag<br />

&, de, pansage, a pansement, (mil.) grooming<br />

kit (mounted service);<br />

de proprete, (mil.) cleaning Ht.<br />

musicien, m., musician; (mil.) bandsman;<br />

les s, (mil.) the band.<br />

musique, f., music, (mil.) band, regimental band;<br />

(tech.) sediment or settlings (as, in a mortar<br />

trough);<br />

chefde , (mil.) bandmaster;<br />

corps de , band; (mil.) regimental, etc., band;<br />

faire de la , (mas.) to mix stone dust with<br />

plaster;<br />

militaire,<br />

de regiment, regimental band;<br />

pupitre a , music stand;<br />

sous-chef de , (mil.) principal musician (U.<br />

S. A.).<br />

musoir, m., head of a jetty, pier head; mitersill<br />

head; wing wall of a sluice.<br />

mutation, f., transfer, change (of function or of<br />

office); (mil.) transfer from one unit to another;<br />

de corps, (mil.) change of regiment, transfer<br />

from one regiment to another;<br />

gain, (mil.) gain by transfer;<br />

perte (mil.) loss by transfer;<br />

de residence, change of residence.

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