A French-English Military Dictionary - Sturmpanzer.com

carrc 65 cartouche
carr, position du , v.faire le .
carreau, m., flagstone; floor; ground; fender-strake
of a boat; window pane; large coarse file; (expl.)
guncotton disk (parallelepiped in form);
couchcr sur le to , sleep on the floor;
coucher, jeter, quelqu'un sur le , to Mil or
wound (one's adversary, etc.);
demeurer, rester, sur le , to be left dead on the
field;
de vitre, window pane.
carre a u-module, m., square, reference-square on
a map.
carrefour, m., crossroads;
de galerie, (mm., mil. mm.) intersection of
two or more galleries.
carrelet, m., large needle, packing needle; (sm. a.)
sword of thin triangular blade; (expl.) cubical
grain.
carrer, v. a., (mil.') to form square (obs.).
carrier, m., quarryman.
carriere, f., career; quarry; course; (man.) out-ofdoors
riding school or ground, open manege;
cheval de , (man.) riding school horse;
dormer ft. (man.) to give a horse his head;
donner (prendre) , to increase the gallop (obs.
as a mil. term);
galop de , (man.) open manege gallop;
officier de , (mil.) regular officer;
systeme de , (mil.) system in which an officer
accomplished his service in his own arm, as
opposed to systeme de passage, q. v.
carrossable, a., (of roads) practicable for carriages,
vehicles, passable by vehicles.
carrossage, m., set (of an axle-arm).
carrossier, m., draught horse, carriage horse;
grand coach , horse;
petit , small carriage horse.
carrousel, m., military festival or pageant by
groups of horsemen in costume, who go through
various exercises, etc.
carroyage, m., checkering (of cross-section or profile
paper);
copier par to , copy by means of squares on
cross-section paper.
carrure, f., breadth across the shoulders.
cartahu, m., (cord.) whip, girt-line;
double, whip upon a whip;
des projectiles, (art.) shell-whip.
cartayer, v. n., to drive so as to keep a rut between
the horses and between the wheels.
carte, f., map, chart; card, pasteboard;
d'assemblage, in France, a map consolidating
the labors of the brigade topographique, and
used in the orientation, etc., of siege artillery
fire;
chorographique, general map, map of a coun-
try; en courbes, contoured map;
croquis, sketch-map;
-ttl'effct, map representing surface forms;
d'erisemble de tir, (art., fortress) map showing
what guns bear on a given point;
de I'etat-major, French official map of France,
on scale of 1:80,000, begun in 1818 and finished
in 1882;
generale, general map, ordinary geographical
map;
geographique, geographical map;
en hachurcs, hachured map;
hydrographique, hydrographic chart;
lecture des s, map-reading;
lire une , to read a map;
marine, marine chart;
militaire, military map or plan;
minute, map made directly from survey
notes to the scale of the survey, and inked;
de mobilisation, map issued when troops are
mobilized for war, of the probable field of operations;
modelee ft Veffet, map showing relief of surface
of the ground, by hachures, or by flat
tints, suitably graduated, etc.;
de moulage, (artif.) cartridge-paper, stiff
board;
de I' observation. (Fr. art.) plan used by observer
in an observatoire de tir;
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carte orographique, orographic map, mountain
map;
orometrique, map showing relief by contours,
contoured map;
particuliere, special map;
plane, plate, plain chart;
pointer la , to prick the chart;
porter un relevement sur la , to lay down a
bearing on the chart or map;
reduite, Mercator's chart, plain chart;
routiere, road map;
topographique, map of a small area, topographic
chart, giving details;
universelle, map of the world;
de visibilite, map by which visibility of pointa
may be determined with reference to a given
point.
cartel, m., (mil) cartel, cartel of exchange;
d'echangc, cartel of exchange;
d' extradition, agreement between neighboring
governments to surrender each other's
deserters.
cartographic, f., cartography.
carton, m., pasteboard; any pasteboard box or
receptacle; porfolio; (ariif.) paper for pyrotechnic
purposes;
ft bretelles, (top.) sketching case, slung around
neck;
Bristol, bristol board;
de cartouches, (sm. a., etc.) cartridge packing
case;
de correction, (art.) correction card;
ft dessin, sketching-board;
planche, sketching-board or -case (for military
sketching, reconnaissance);
portefeuille. sketching-board, case (reconnaissance,
etc.).
cartouche, m., ornamental scroll or drawing inclosing
the legend of a map; frame or cartouch
ta receive a card or paper (as on a railway car);
(mach., etc.) receiver, cylinder (e. g., sm. a.,
the receiver of the Giffard liquefied-gas gun);
(artif.) rocket-case; (ball.) recorder of the Le
Boulenge chronograph;
recepteur, (ball.) recorder of the Le Bou-
Ieng6 chronograph.
cartoiiche, f., cartridge (esp. sm. a., but said of
artillery in a few cases); (expl., etc.) cartridge,
demolition cartridge, blasting cartridge;
aller aux s, (mil.) to go for cartridges;
amorce, (expl., torp.) cartridge serving as
primer for a charge, e. g., of dynamite, of frozen
dynamite;
ft amorce ccntrale, (sm. a.) center-fire car-
tridge;
ft amorce peripherique, (sm. a.) rim-fire car-
tridge;
avaler sa , (mil. slang) to die;
& balle, (sm. a.) ball-cartridge;
sans balle, (sm. a.) blank cartridge;
& balles, (art.) a term long used for case-shot;
case-shot and its charge in one (obs.);
& balles multiples, (art.) round of ammunition
for the canon d balles (flank defense);
ft blanc, blanche, blank cartridge;
ft bourrelet, flanged, rim-, cartridge;
sans bourrelet, rimless cartridge;
d, bourrelet et ft gorge, flanged and crimped
cartridge;
ft broche, pin-cartirdge, pin-fire cartridge;
s de cartouch iere, cartridges issued for guard
and other security purposes;
ft collet, bottle-shaped cartridge;
de combat, (r.f. art.) service cartridge;
combustible, self-consuming (paper) cartridge;
complete, (sm. a., T. f. art.) round of fixed
ammunition;
ft culot replit, folded-head cartridge;
de dynamite, dynariite petard;
ft eau, (expl.) sort of water jacket surrounding
the explosive (safety device);
s d'economie, unexpended cartridges;
emboutie, (sm. a., r.f. art.) solid-head, soliddrawn
cartridge;
- etui de , cartridge case;
ft etui combustible, paper cartridge;