A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

pays 316 peloton
-, pays, plat, (mil.) open country, as distinguished
from fortified places.
paysage, m., landscape.
paysan, m., peasant.
page, m., toll, tollhouse;
barriere de-- , tollgate, toll bar.
pfiager, a., chemin- toll road.
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peau, m., hide, skin; (met.) skin or crust of an ingot
or casting;
dont la-adhtre aux muscles, hidebound;
de batterie, batter head of a drum;
de caisse, drumhead; - crue, rawhide;
de-
, leathern; - inferieure, snare head; - preparee, dressed skin or hide;
- rouge, redskin, North American Indian;
- de tambour, drumhead; - verte, rawhide.
pgchard, m., familiar term for roan horse.
peche, f., fishing.
pfcclier, v. a., to fish.
pcherie, f., fishing grounds.
pcheur, m., fisherman.
peckin, rn., v. pekin.
peculat, m., peculation (of public moneys);
militaire, theft of part of booty or of public
moneys by accountable persons.
pe"culateur, m., functionary or official who steals
public moneys; peculator.
pgdale, f. ; (mach.) treadle, footboard, pedal; pedal
of a bicycle;
dbilles, pedal on ballbearings (bicycle);
- dcaoutchauc(s), rubber pedal (bicycle);
dynamometrique, dynamometric pedal (gives
pressure of foot on the pedal of a bicycle);
fiscie, rat-trap pedal (bicycle);
- d'un tour, lathe pedal.
pCdaler, v. n., to pedal (bicycle).
pedalier, m., crank hanger (bicycle).
pediluve, m., footbath; place where horses' feet are
washed.
pMestre, a., pedestrian.
peJometre, m., pedometer.
pedometrlque, a., pedometric.
pfidon, m., courier on foot, runner.
peignage, m., combing (as of wool, etc.).
peigne, m., comb; (tech.) chaser; (hipp.) a variety
of crapaudine, q. v., so called because the hairs
stand up like the teeth of a comb (used also in
plural); (cord.) gill;
de declanchement, (r.f. art.) trigger comb;
- debaudrer, (cord.) hatchel;
depurer, (cord.) cleaning comb;
-fcmelle, (tech.) internal chaser;
dfileter, (tech.) chasing tool, chaser;
- sans fin, (cord.) gill;
male, (tech.) external chaser.
peigner, v. a., to comb; (cord.) to taper (the end of
a rope); to hatchel (hemp).
peignetise, f., (cord.) hatcheling machine.
peignon, m., (cord.) twist of hemp.
peinchebec, m., pinchbeck.
peindre, v. a., to paint, draw; to coat;
d l !
'aquarelle, to paint in water colors;
d la chaux, to whitewash;
& I'huile, to paint in oils.
peine, f., penalty, punishment; labor, toil, trouble,
fatigue;
afflictive et infamante, punishment of grave
crimes, involving loss of peinture & I'aquarelle, water-color painting;
blanche, white paint (Fr. a., used for distinctive
marks);
d la chaux, whitewashing;
d la cire, encaustic painting;
& la colle, kalsomining;
couche de coat of , paint;
dfresque, fresco work;
arise, second coat on ironwork;
it I'huile,
liberty, forced labor,
death;
du boulet, (mij.) ball and chain; - disciplinaire, de discipline, (mil.) discip-
oil painting;
au minium de plomo, red-leading (first crfat
on ironwork);
noire, black paint (third and final coat on
ironwork);
noire sur minium, black paint over red lead;
olive, olive painting (wooden parts of gun carriages);
en pate, paste from which paint is made;
d la plombagine, black leading;
au sable, covering paint with sand;
silicatee, silicate painting;
au vernis, varnishing.
pekin, m., (mil. slang) "cit," cf. chinois;
de bahut, (Sj. Cyr slang) cadet who has finished
his studies;
en , in plain clothes, in "cits."
pelage, m., (hipp.) color, coat.
pelard, a., bois (or simple pelard), barked wood,
wood stripped of its bark.
pelardeau, m., (nav.) plug (as for a shot-, a hawsehole).
pfilastre, pelatre, m., pan of a shovel.
pel6, a., bare, threadbare; (top.) bare, treeless, verdureless.
peler, v. a., to peel, bare, strip; to remove the hair
from a skin; to bark; (fort.) to cut sods;
la terre, to cut sods.
pelerine, f., (unif.) hooded cape.
pelican, m., iron dog.
pelisse, f., (unif.) pelisse, hussar pelisse.
pellage, m., spading.
pellardeau, m., v. pelardeau.
pellatre, m., v. pelastre.
pelle, f., shovel, scoop; oar blade; (met.) firinghole
slide;
d' Arras, sort of sod cutter, useful in ground
that holds together well, but is easy to dig;
d'aviron, blade of an oar;
beche, (mil.) spade or shovel in one, with a
saw up one side of blade; spade-shovel;
carree, spade;
. dcharbon, coal shovel;
d, de, feu, fire shovel;
jet de throw of a , shovel;
ramasser une , (fam.) to get* a fall from a bicycle;
remuer ft la to , shovel, to use the shovel;
ronde. round shovel;
tranchante, (fort.) trenching shovel.
pellee, f., shovelful.
peller, v. a., to shovel, to use a shovel.
pellerSe, f., v. pellee.
pelletee, f., v. pellee.
pelleteur, m., shoveler, man who uses a shovel,
shovel man.
pellicule, f., (phot.) sensitive film;
d celluloid(e) celluloid , film;
d'huilage, negative paper.
pelote, f., ball; clew; (sm. a.) pellet of small shot;
linary punishment;
frapper d'une, to impose a penalty;
homme de-
, porter, any man without a trade,
earning his living by severe physical labor;
infamante, ignominious punishment (banishment,
civil degradation);
de mort, death penalty;
sous- de ---- under , penalty of ____ ;
sous - de la mort, de la vie, under penalty of
death.
peintre, m., painter; (mil. slang) sweeper.
peinturage, m. . >
house painting.
peinture, f., painting; picture; paint, colors;
- d'appret,- en appret, priming coat;
(hipp.) maze, star, on a horse's forehead; (met.J
sheet copper rolled up and ready for melting;
d'emeri, emery ball;
ft feu, (artif.) light ball;
de glaise, (artif.) wad of clay (rockets).
peloter, to make-up into, wind in, a ball; to clew;
(met.) to stretch under the hammer; (sm. a.) to
cluster (of small shot).
peloton, m., ball, lump; group, knot, party; (mil.)
platoon; (French cavalry) platoon (12 files);
de chasse, (mil. slang) extra drill;
defaire un , to unclew;
d'execution, (mil.) firing party;
faire de punilion, to belt ng to the punishment
squad, to serve punishment;
feu de , (mil.) platoon firing;