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cahier 58 calepin
cahier de visile des hdpitaux, (des infirmaries), (med.)
record of patients in hospital (infirmary);
de visile regimentaire, (med.) sick-book.
cahot, m., jolt (of a carriage).
cabotage, m., jolting.
cahoter, v. a. n., to jolt; to be jolted, tossed about.
Canute, f., poor house or building; (fort.) contemptuous
name for a small fort, or for a post
badly fortified and in bad condition.
eaillebottis, m., (new.) grating.
calllot, m., clot of blood.
caillou, m., pebble, small stone.
cailloutis, m., metaling, broken stone for a road;
en , metaled, macadamized.
caissc, f., chest, box, case; frame; shell (of a block,
pulley); shell (of a drum): money chest, (hence)
treasury, funds; body of a railway car or carriage;
(sm. a.) arm-chest;
a air, air-tight compartment (e. g., of a lifeboat,
etc.);
d' alimentation, feed case (of a machine gun);
d'amarrage, mooring-buoy ;
d'ambulance, chest for medical supplies;
d'ancrage, (pont.) makeshift anchor (box
filled with stones);
ft archives, (mil.) records-chest;
d'armes, (sm. a.) small-arm packing case;
d'artifices, (art.) powder-chest (obs.);
ft bagages, (mil.) regulation army-chest (officers'),
for field service;
d bascule, (mil. r. r.) tilt-box or case (for the
transportation of earth);
blanche, (sm. a.) small-arm ammunition box
(unpainted, whence named), carried by the
parks;
blanche He double approvisionnement, (Fr.
mountain art.) reserve ammunition box;
bruit dc , (mil.) beat of drum, drum music;
ft cartouches, (sm. a.) small-arm ammunition
chest or box;
de cementation, (met.) cementation-box;
ft charbon, (art.) coal-box of a field-forge;
claire, (mus.) snare drum;
de comptabilUe, (mil.) field-chest for papers,
money, etc.;
- des depots et consignations, ( Fr.adm.) treasury
for sums due heirs of deceased soldiers, or for
sums that for any reason can not be paid out
directly from the military chest;
ft dynamite, (mil.) chest for transportation of
petards de cavalerie, by horse artillery or artillery
parks;
ft eau, water tank;
ft effets, (mil.) chest for reserve supplies of
clothes (in the field);
hfeu, firebox;
ft flambeaux, (art.) chest for transportation
of flambeaux;
&fusees, (art., etc.) signal-rocket chest;
- ft gargousses, (siege) cartridge chest (left in
expense magazines of batteries);
grosse , (mus.) bass-drum;
ft instruments, any instrument box; (art.)
case for battery telescope and stand;
-
militaire, military (money) chest;
ft munitions, (art.) ammunition chest;
ft obus (de siege), (siege) case for packing of
shells, and for transportation of same from
parks to batteries; (mil. r. r.) case or chest for
transportation of shells and of small articles;
d'ttutils, tool-chest;
de pare, (siege) chest for tools, spare parts,
tools for fireworks, etc. ;
de piston, (mach.) piston body;
ft poudre, powder chest;
de pmilie, shell of a block;
de regiment, regimental (money) chest;
de reparation, (mil.) chief armorer's toolbox;
de reserve, (expl.) storing-box (for gun cotton);
de resistance, (elec.) resistance-box;
de roue, (nav.) paddle-box;
caisse roulante, (mus.) snare drum;
& son, (art.) large box filled with bran, for
recovery of projectiles;
de tambour, (mus.) shell of a drum;
ft tasseaux, small-arm packing case;
de transport, chest for tools, etc v carried by
mountain batteries, telegraph sections (mountain),
ambulance park, etc.; (expl.) gun-cotton
shipping case;
de tresorier, (mil.) money chest, pay chest;
de voiture, body of a wagon, railway carriage.
caisson, m., caisson (esp. an artillery caisson);
(in gen.) any closed wagon used in the military
service, for the transportation of ammunition,
tools, supplies; (cons.) caisson;
d'ambulance, hospital wagon;
d'appui, (fort.) supporting sheet-iron boxing
or framing of a turret;
de bataillon, (inf.) infantry ammunition supply
wagon (now disused, Fr. a.);
desservir un , to serve ammunition from a
caisson;
d dynamite (melinite), dynamite (melinite)
wagon of the engineer parks;
- des Equipages militaires, ( Fr. a.) caisson
similar to that of artillery, used a long time for
transportation of subsistence supplies;
d, fusees, rocket carriage;
d'infanterie, infantry ammunition supply
wagon;
ft munitions, ammunition wagon;
ft poudre, (Fr. eng.) powder-wagon of the
engineer park.
cal, m., the joint or knitting of a fractured bone;
osseux, (hipp.) bone spavin.
calade, f., (man.) slope of a rising manege ground.
calage, m., wedging, chocking, blocking; (inst.)
leveling (as a transit); adjustment or setting
of various parts of an instrument (or machine)
with a view to keying or clamping them in
proper position; clamping; operation of fixing,
e. g., an axis, in its proper position; adjustment;
(art., sm. a.) jamming of breech mechanism;
angle de , (elec.) lead of the brushes; (steam)
angle between eccentric radius and crank;
anneau de , (art.) key ring;
-tichaud, (mach.) hot forcing, hot pressure;
frette de , (art.) locking hoop;
bfroid, (mach.) cold pressure, cold forcing.
calaison, f., (nav.) load water-line.
calamite, f., calamite, loadstone.
calandre, m., (steam) the lower tube of a twotube
boiler.
calcaire, a., calcareous; m:, limestone.
caleaneuin, m., (hipp.) point of hock, os calcis.
calcinage, m., roasting, calcining.
calcination, ., calcination, roasting.
caiciner, v. a., to roast, to calcine.
cale, f., key, wedge; chock, block; quoin; prop,
beam; (top.) cove, small bay; (mach.) key;
(harn. ) small pad (as on headgear of pack horse) ;
(nav.) hold (of a vessel); shipbuilding stocks;
(mach.) liner;
d'ajustage, tightening key, adjusting key;
en bois, wooden thickness piece;
de construction, shipyard;
grande , (art., etc.) wheel chock;
grande
de roue, (r. r.) wheel chock;
longue, (art.) roller chock;
petite , (art.) gun chock;
de radoub, graving dock;
de roues, (art., etc.) wheel chock;
de rouleau, (art.) roller chock;
seche, dry dock.
calfi, a., said of a level when the bubble is bisected
by origin of graduations.
calec.on, m., drawers.
calepin, m., memorandum book; (sm. a.) greased
patch, patch of a rifled bullet.