A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

omaine 401 roiuielle
romaliie d lemers multiples, compound-lever testing
machine;
oscillante, steelyard;
penchee, inclined roman (for hamlets on
maps).
rombaillet, m., graving piece, dutchman.
roniite, f., (expl.) romite.
rompre, v. a. r. n., to break, break in pieces,
asunder; to burst through; to destroy (as
roads, bridges, etc.); to break the efiect of;
to interrupt, discontinue, prevent, avert,
break off, divert, keep off; to fail in an obligation;
to fatigue; to train, accustom to, become
accustomed to; (opt.) to refract; (fenc.) to retire
(said also of boxing); (cord.) to part; (mil.) to
break an enemy's line; to reduce, diminish, the
front (as of a column for a march); tn pass from
line to column; to break ir^to column; to lose
one's formation ;
une armee, (mil.) to break up or.disband an
army;
les arrets, (mil.) to break.one's arrest;
un bitiillon, etc., (mil.) to break through a
battalion, etc.;
lecamp, (mil.) to break up camp;
un carrr, (mil.) to break a square; to reform
into column from square;
charge, to break bulk;
un chemin, to break up a road;
un cheval, (man.) to break a horse;
un chevald une allure, (man.) to train a horse
to a gait ;
en colonne, (mil.) to break into column;
le combat, (mil.) to break off a fight;
le cou d'un cheval (man.) to make the head
of a horse flexible;
un coup, to weaken or deaden a blow;
un corns d'eau, to divert a stream; to turn
a stream off;
un courant, (elec.) to break a current; to
open a circuit:
d droit, (mil.) to break into column to the
right;
I'eau, & un cheval, to interrupt a horse while
drinking, to keep him from drinking his fill;
lesfaisceaux, (mil.) to break stacks;
& la fatigue, to inure to fatigue;
le fil, v. un cours d'eau;
d gauche, (mil.) to break into column to the
left;
la glace, to break the ice;
un guc, to destroy a ford;
d la guerre, (mil.) to inure to war;
la mesure. (fenc.) to retire while parrying;
la mesuredson ad'iersaire, (fenc.)t) keep one's
adversary from delivering his thrust;
- le pas, (mil.) to break step, to take route
step (as in going over bridge) ;
un pont, to destroy a bridge;
la prison, to break jail;
les rangs, (mil.) to break ranks, to be dismissed
(as after drill);
le salpetre, to pulverize saltpeter;
la semelle, (fenc.) to retire a foot's length;
une troupe, (mil.) to drive in a body of
troops, throw it into disorder.
rompu, p. p., broken; trained; (nav.) carried
a.vay; (mil.) defeated, broken up;
chemin , broken road;
d la fatigue, guerre, etc., inured to fatigue,
war, etc.;
train , (man.) broken gait, resembling the
aubin and the traquenard, qq. v.
ronce, f., bramble, brier;
artificielle, (mil., fort.} obstacle or entanglement
composed of spiral or barbed wire, so as
to form artificial thorns.
rond, a., round, circular, cylindrical, rounded off
full, even; round (of a number); stiff (of the
wind);
lettre e, round hand.
rond, m., washer; round; ring; circle; wheel;
traversing plate; circular sweep, fifth-wheel, of
a wagon; (met.T iron of round cross section; (pi.)
bar iron; (man.) volt;
d'arrif re-train, upper part of a fifth-wheel;
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rond d'avant-train, lower part of a fif th-wheel;
couper le - , (man.) to cut a volt; ;.,!>