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terrassement 448 tertre
teirassement, conduite des s, (fort., etc.') management,
progression, of earthwork;
travaux de earthwork.
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terrasser, v. a., (fort., etc.) to execute earthwork;
to fill in, bank up; to bank up a wall, a road,
with earthwork; to prepare the ground for
paving; to throw down on the ground; to fell,
to floor;
se , (mil.} to intrench one's self.
terrassler, m., digger, excavator, navvy;
who contracts to do earthwork.
person
the earth; pot-
terre, f., earth, soil, mold, ground;
ter's clay; land, estate, territory, .dominions,
country (esp. in pi.); (n.tr.) land, the shore;
land as distinguished from sea service; (mu.)
the army, as distinguishes from mer, the navy;
(elcc.) earth, ground, connection; .
ft , ashore, on shore; aground, stranded;
aller ft , & , (man.) to passage low;
amendee, v. re-animee;
armee de , (mil.) army proper, land army;
de , (art.) land as distinguished from
artillerie de
marine artillery;
basse, low, flat, land on seacost;
de beurrc, cape flyaway;
bien avant dans les s, far from the coast, far
inland;
ft ble, etc., wheat, etc., ground;
a briques, brick clay;
chcmin sous la , underground road;
commutateur de , (dec.) earth switch;
coulante, .(fort.) loose (unrammed) earth,
crumbling earth; earth taking its natural slope;
& coulante, at the natural slope;
courir venire ti , (of a horse) to go at full speed;
se couvrir de , (siege) to intrench;
cuite, terra cotta;
dans les s, inland, up the country;
ltre & to be ? aground, ashore; to lie aground
(of boats, ships, etc.);
ferme, mainland, continent (as distinguished
from islands); dry land (as distinguished from
waters); (fort.) solid ground (as distinguished
from foundations in sand or under water);
fil de , (elec.) ground wire;
ft fleur de on a level with the , ground; close to
the ground;
forces de , (mil.) land forces;
-forte, stiff earth; stiff, clayey, grour,^ (.hard
to march through);
iifouton, fuller's earth;
franche, vegetable mold;
enfriche, fallow land;
s froides, damp, clayey, ground;
glaise, pipeclay, potter's earth, luting;
grasse, loam;
haute , upland;
haute, high land on the coast, bold coast;
homme de , landsman;
ft n hommes, (fort., siege, and in gen.) earth
or earthwork that calls for 1 shovel to (n-1)
picks; (hence)
ft un homme, earth that may
be directly removed by the shovel (no pick);
ft un homme , work requiring 2 shovels
and 1 pick; ft#, 3 hommes, work requiring
1 shovel and 1, 2, .... picks; ft 3 /ioramesi,work
requiting 2 shovels and 5 picks, etc.;
d'infusoires, (expl., etc.) infusorial earth,
kieselguhr;
enjachere, v. -
enfriche;
du Japan, catechu;
jeter ft to , throw, tumble, down;
legere, light, easily worked, ground;
mange par la , landlocked;
maritime, seacoast, shore;
mettre ft , to land, set on shore; to touch at a
port;
mettre It la , (elec.) to ground;
mettre pied ft v. s. v. , pied;
-to, mouler, (fond.) molding loam;
mouvement de , earthquake;
moyenne, (fort.) average earth, with respect
to crumbling;
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neuve, ground unplowed for a long time;
noyer la to lose , sight of land;
terre d'ombre, umber;
ouverture de la , (siege) breaking ground;
ouvrage de , (fort.) earthwork;
par , by land; on, upon, the ground; (mil.)
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by marching;
pelletee & un relai, earth reshoveled once;
perdre to , go, swim, out of one's depth; (nav.)
to lose sight of land;
ft pipe, pipe clay;
ft pise, pisa earth;
plaque de , (elec.) ground plate;
ft pot, ft potier, potter's clay;
potfrie CP. , earthenware;
pourri', rotten stone;
prendre , to land, disembark, make land;
de rapport, rapportce, made ground;
rassisc, '
fort.) settled earth;
re-animee, earth from which saltpeter is ex-
tracted;
reconnaitrc la , to see how the land lies:
rcfractaire, fire clay;
relier & la , (elec.) to ground;
remuer de la to , upturn, dig, move, earth (in
construction, etc.);- (siege) to open trenches, do
trench worlr;
remuer la Us , s, to dig; (siege) to intrench;
retour par la , (elec.) earth return;
sac ft , (siege, fart.) sand bag;
de S:enne, sienna;
de Sienne brulcc, burnt sienna;
travailler ft v. alter ft
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tremblement de , earthquake;
vague, unclaimed land;
vegetale, v. franche;
au vent, weather shore;
vent de land , breeze;
sous le vent, (nav.) lee shore;
vierge, earth in its natural state, i. e., not
shoveled; ground that has never been cultivated.
terre -a-terre, m., dull, routine, work; (man.) low
passage (sort of slow gallop sidewise).
terreau, m., garden mold (decomposed leaves).
terre-plein, m., earthen platform; (fort.) terrepein;
(in temporary fortification) bottom of the
ditch behind the parapet; (in siege works) emplacement
of the guns of the batteries of first
and of second position;
creuse. (firt.) bottom of trench in rear of the
parapet (field works).
to cover with earth;
(artif.) to plug with clay, with earth;
se , (mil.) to cover one's self by earth works;
to intrench one's self.
terrer, v. a., to earth up;
terreur, f., terror;
panique, v. s. v. panique.
terreux, a., earthy.
terrine, f., earthenware pan;
filtre, earthenware filter (used in the manufacture
of mercury fulminate).
terrir, v. n., (oi boats) to make a landing.
territoire, m., territory;
civil, (Alj iers and Tonkin) territory administered
by c vilian functionaries;
maritime, territorial waters;
militaire, (Algiers and Tonkin) territory aiministered
b ? the military;
-reserve, (in France) part of the zonefrontiere,
as well as al. ground within 10 kilometers of a
place forte, for which severe restrictions exist as
to building, etc.;
special, ( Fr. fort.) area in which woods may
not oeclearec*.
territorial, a., territorial; (law) (of the seas) within
the 3-mile limit; (mil.) in France, belonging to
the territorial army; m., ( Fr. a.) member ofthe
territorial army;
armee e, ( Fr. a.) territorial army;
mer e, seas within the 3-mile limit.
territoriale, f., ( Fr. a. ) the territorial army.
territorial^, f., territoriality.
territorien, m., (Fr. a.) member of the territorial
army.
terroir, m., soil, ground.
tertre, m., (top.) hillock, hummock, knoll, eminence,
rising ground, little hill.