A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

acinal 366 ragrer
racinal de pont, bolster for a stringpiece.
racine, f., root; (top.) foot of a mountain;
-s fourrages, edible roots .
raclage, m., thinning of underbrush.
racle, f., strike; scraper; (hydr.) natural basin in a
river.
racle-curette, f., scraper.
raclement, m., scraping.
racier, v. a., to scrape; to strike a measure; to thin
out underbrush.
raclette, f., small scraper.
racleur, m., scraper (workman).
racloir, m., scraner; boiler-tube scraper; road
scraper; (powd'.) scraper, rake.
raclolre, f., spokeshave; strike, striker, strickle.
raclure, f., scrapings.
, ., (mil.) Iddnapping of recruits, crimping;
enticing men to enlist (obs.).
racoler, v. a., (mil.) to get soldiers by fraud or violence;
to kidnap, to crimp, to entice, men to
enlist (obs.).
racoleur, m., (mil.) kidnapper, crimp (obs.).
radasse, f., swab, mop.
rade, f., (hydr.) roads, roadstead;
oiler en-, to leave a port;
etre en-, to be at anchor in the roads;
- foraine, open roadstead;
grande-, outer roadstead;
mcttre en-:, v. aller en- ;
petite-, inner roadstead.
radeau, m., raft; raft, train, of logs; (pont.) raft;
radoub, m., (nav.) repair, refitting (of a ship);
dockyard; (powd.) drying, reworking, of powder;
reworked powder;
bassin de , v. s. v. bassin;
cole de , (nav.) graving slip;
en , (nav.) in tlie dockyard, under repair;
forme de , (nav.) graving dock;
poudre de , (powd.) reworked powder.
radoubage, m., (powd.) remanufacturing, working
over again.
radouber, v. a. r., (nav.) to refit, repair (a vessel);
to be under repair; (powd.) to dry (work over)
powder.
radoubeur, m., (nav.) calker.
radoucir, v. a. r., to soften, become softer; (met.)
to anneal. ^
rafale, f., squall, wind squall;
& s, squally;
par s, in squalls.
raffermir, v. a., to harden, consolidate, make firm;
to strengthen, fasten, confirm.
raffermissement, m., hardening, strengthening.
raffinage, m., refining (of saltpeter, etc.);(met.)
refining, fining.
rafflner, v. a., to refine (as saltpeter, etc.); (met.)
to refine, to fine.
raffinerie, f., (met., etc.) refinery.
raf (f )utage, m., putting tools in complete order.
raf(f )uter, v. a., to put tools in complete order.
rafiau, rafiot, m., small sail and row boat.
(nav.) floating stage; - de barriques, (pont.) raft of casks;
- de bois de construction, float or raft of timber;
- de circonstance, (pont.) temporary raft; (nav.)
improvised raft (as to escape from a sinking
ship); - double, (pont.) raft made up of two sets of
logs, end to end; double raft; - de fortune, v.-de circonstance (nav.),'
- de manoeuvre, (pont.) construction raft (used
for setting trestles in place) ;
pont de-x, (pont.) bridge of rafts;
- de sauvetage, life raft; - simple, (pont.) raft made up of single logs side
by side; single raft; - de tonneaux, v.-de barriques;
--traille, trail or flying raft; (pont.) raft bridge.
rader, v. a., to strike (wheat, corn, etc.); to divide
a block of, stone with a chisel; (nav.) to bring a
ship into the roads.
radial, a., radial;
-e, (machine) (mach.) any radial machine;
(more esp.) radial drill.
radiant, a., radiant.
radiation, f., radiation; erasure, striking out (of a
. word, of an item from a bill); (mil.) striking off
the rolls (said of horses as well as of men; may
be, and is, said when a man or a horse is transferred
from one company to another of the
same regiment, or from one regiment to another,
or has gone into the reserve or the disponibilite,
or is dead); striking off the rolls of the army for
any reason whatever, (hence, sometimes) dismissal.
radical, a., radical; m., (chem.) radical;
vice-
, (law) fatal defect.
radier, m., (cons.) frame of ground timber (for the
foundation of a sluice, etc.) ; floor, platform (of a
lock); bed of a sluice; apron (ofa basin, dock, between
the piles of a bridge, the walls of a lock
gate); head race; (more generally) concrete or
masonry work (to strengthen a foundation in
compressible soil), inverted raflouage, m.,
arch, invert;
arriere--
, downstream apron;
avant--
, upstream apron;
bassin de-
, gra .ing dock, dry dock;
faux-
, apron of a dam ; - general, (in compressible soil) strengthening
layer of concrete, etc., supporting the whole
foundation of a building; - de pont, apron between the piles of a bridge.
radleux, a., radiant.
radiophone, m., (elec.) radiophone.
v. renflouage.
raflouement, m., v. renflouement.
raflouer, v. a., v. renflouer.
rafralchir, v. a., to cool, freshen, refresh; to renew,
renovate, repair, make over, do up, rub up; to
rest, cause to rest; (mas.) to retrim, re-dress,
joints, faces (of a stone); (mil.) to throw supplies,
reenforcements, etc., into a place; (cord.)
to cut off fag-ends; (expl.) to trim (a Bickford
fuse, etc.);
une amarre, (cord.) to freshen a rope, cable,
at the nip;
les amarres, (cord.) to make a knot or lashing
over again;
une bouche&feu, (art.) to cool a gun, to swab
it out;
le bout d'un cordage, (cord.) to cut off the fagend;
un cdble, v. une amarre;
un canon (art.) v. une bouche hfeu;
un cordage, v. les amarres and le bout
d'un cordage;
un coussinetechauffe, (mach.) to cool a heated
bearing, a hot box;
le cuivre, (met.) to alloy copper with (three
times its weight of) lead;
fourneau de . (met.) refining furnace;
lafourrure, (cord.) to put on a fresh service;
un fusil, (sm. a.) to clean a gun;
le mortier, (mas.) to thin mortar;
une place, (mil.) to throw fresh troops and
supplies into a besieged town;
une queue, to trim a horse's tail even ;
les rayures, (art.) to rifle over, to reset, to
recut the grooves ;
une scie, to sharpen a saw;
les troupes, (mil.) to halt, refresh, and rest
troops and horses.
rafralchissement, m., refreshment, cooling;
s, supply of fresh provisions, fresh provisions;
du cuivre
! (met.) alloying of copper with
(three times its weight of) lead.
ragage, m., v. raguage.
raganage, m., trimming of the lower branches of
ragot, m., shaft hook (of a wagon); breeching hook;
a., thickset, stocky;
cheval , thickset horse.
ragreage, m., dubbing; ( nav.) refitting of rigging.
ragre'er, v. a., to finish off, work over, dub; to refit,
repair, restore, renovate; to remove inequalities;
(nav.) to refit the rigging;