A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

arreaudage 36 bastiion
barreaudage, m., barring, grating, bars (of a
window, etc.).
barrcr, v. a., to bar, stop or close up; to dam a
stream; to draw the pen through a word or
words.
barrette, f., small bar, rib; test strip or specimen;
(in a balloon) the short bar from
which the pinceaux (q. v.) hang; (mil.)
bar (of a medal); (harn.) bar (of a mule
bit); (sm. a.) hand (of a revolver); (mack.)
slide-bar, slide-face, valve face; (fond.) corebox
stay, spindle centering piece (as in casting
of projectiles);
de detente, (sm. a.) hand of a revolver;
d'essai, test strip or bar.
barricade, f., barricade.
barrifire, f., barrier; fence, rail, stile; (fort.) heavy
wooden door in exits of fortifications; (mow.)
hurdle;
double, (fort.) double-swing barrier (field
work);
flottante, floating barricade, boom;
de peage, turnpike gate;
& pivot central, (fort.) central pivot barrier
(field work); .
& un vantail, h deux vantaux, (fort.)
single, double leaf barrier (field work).
barrique, f., hogshead.
barrot, m., (nav.) deck beam.
barrotage, in., (nav.) deck beaming.
baryte, f., (chem.) baryta.
bas, m., stocking; lowest part of anything; lower
course of a stream;
d'un Mtiment, ground sill of a building;
du bois d'un fusil, (sm. a.) butt-end of stock;
de la branche, (harn.) leg or branch of a
bit;
de I'eau, low water, time of low water;
elastique, (rned.) elastic stocking (for varicose
veins);
de sole, (/am.) irons, fetters;
a., low; overcast (of the weather);
eau se, low water;
faire main se sur, to put everybody to the
sword;
mer se, low water;
mettre les armes, (mil.) to surrender;
mettre pavilion , (nav.) to strike one's
colors;
se pression, (steam) low pressure.
basane, f., sheepskin, sheep (leather);
s, (unif.) false boots, leather legs of French
cavaky trowsers.
basaner, v. a., to darken (leather);
un pantalon en cuir, (unif.) to reenforce a
pair of trowsers with leather.
bascule, f., plyer, lever (as of a bridge, etc.),
swipe; swing-gate; weigh-bridge; weighingmachine;
(mach.) rocking, reciprocating,
seesaw motion; (inst.) needle-lifter (of a
compass); (sm. a.) break-off, and related
parts, of the breech of a shotgun; (sm. a.)
false breech;
b , balance, balancing, rocking;
branche de , hinder end of a plyer;
& contrepoids, counterpoise lever (of a drawbridge);
fleche de , fore part of a plyer;
pont & . weigh-bridge, weighing-machine;
'de pont-levis, (pont.) swipe;
de serrure, lever of a lock.
basculer, v. a., to tilt, dip, drop, swing, balance,
rock; (art.) to " tumble 'f (of a projectile).
base, f., base, basis; foundation; support, rest;
foot, pedestal; (top.) base-line; (mil.) base;
basis or base of formation, at drill; (man.)
horse's feet considered as forming a line or
polygon of support;
accidentelle, (mil.) temporary base of operations;
d'alignement, basis of alignment (drill);
d'approvisionnements, (mil.) base of supplies;
auxiliaire, (top.) secondary base;
brisee, (top.) broken base-line;
of a unit on which
movement is made);
de , (drill) directing (said
base diagonale, (man.) diagonally opposed feet
of a horse, considered as points of support
in his movements;
en equerre, (mil.) enveloping base;
de formation, (drill) the unit on which, as
a base, a movement is made or maneuver carried
out;
ft, invariable, said of a cipher in which a
symbol retains same meaning throughout;
laterale, (man.) feet on same side of horse,
considered as points of support;
d'operations, (mil.) base of operations; (also,
more narrowly) line of points at which an army
leaves the railways;
quadrupedale, (man.) the four foet of the
horso, as points of support;
secondaire, (mil.) secondary base, intermediate
base of operations on the line of operations;
tripedale, (man.) any three feet of the horse,
as points of support;
& variable, said of a cipher, in which the
same symbol changes meaning in the same
message.
bas-fond, m., (top.) low ground, bottom, bottom
land; swampy bottom (frequently); shoal,
shoal water; deep place in a stream, deep
water.
bas-foyer, m., (met.) generic term for a low furnace
(less than lm high), as opposed to haut-
.
fourneau.
basique, a., (chem.) basic.
bas-jointe, a., (hipp.) low-pasterned (of horse
and of pastern).
bas-off, m., noncommissioned officer (slang,
Polytechnic).
bas-oflicier, m., noncommissioned officer
(obs.).
basque, f., (unif.) skirt, tail, of a etc.
coat, tunic,
basse, f., (hydr.) shoal water, hiding a bank of
sand or of rocks; sand bank, or rocks never
uncovered, but near surface.
basse-eau, f., ebb, ebb-tide, low water.
basse-enceinte, f., (fort.) false bray.
basse-maree, f., ebb, ebb-tide, low water, low
tide.
basse-mer, f., low water, low tide, ebb, ebbtide.
.
basse-palee, f., (pont.) foundation piles.
bassin, m., basin (vessel); scale-pan (of a balance);
basin (of a port); geographical basin;
so much of a river or canal as lies between
two bridges, in a town; (hipp.) pelvis;
de chasse, (fort.) flush-basin (in a ditch that
may be flooded);
~de construction, dry dock;
h flot, wet dock;
flottant, floating dock;
defuite, (fort.) escape-basin (after a rush of
water through the ditch);
hydrographique, basin drained by a river;
lacustre, basin whose waters discharge into a
lake;
maritime, maritime basin; .
de partage, reservoir at summit level
canal;
of a
de radoub, dry dock, graving dock;
de reception, basin or area drained by a
torrent;
de retenue, (fort.) flushing-basin (for a rush
of water through the ditch);
sec, dry dock.
bassine, f., flat, shallow, metal dish.
bassinet, m., (art., etc.) cup of a fuse; (sm. a.)
pan of a flintlock (obs.);
couvre , (sm. a.) pan-cover (obs.).
basson, m., (mus.) bassoon.
bastide, f., (fort.) ancient bastion, blockhouse,
small fortress (obs.).
bastille, f., (fort.) bastille, fortress (obs.); the
Bastille.
bastillon, m., (fort,) small bastille (obs.).
bastin, m., (cord.) coir.
basting, m., (of timber) standard form or
size. .
bastingage, m., (nav.) hammock nettings.
bastion, m., (fort.) bastion;
camus, bastion, with one of the faces sup-