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cartouche 66 castration
cartouche b, etui metallique, metallic cartridge;
&, d', exercice, (r. /. art., sm. a.) drill
cartridge, dummy cartridge;
s d'exercice, yearly allowance of ammunition;
explosive, (mil. min.) melinite cartridge
used in making forages, q. v.;
fausse , dummy cartridge;
b, fumee, (art.) (signal) smoke-producing
cartridge to represent bursting of shells at
target practice;
& gorge, grooved-head cartridge;
A gorge et sans bourrelet, crimped rimless
cartridge;
de guerre, regulation service cartridge;
b, inflammation centrale, center-fire car-
tridge;
d inflammation peripherique, rim-fire cartridge;
d' instruction, drill, dummy cartridge;
metallique, metallic cartridge;
& miixraille, (r. f. art.) case-shot; (sm. a.)
fragmentation cartridge (containing several
bullets instead of one, segments, etc.);
s de mobilisation, (Fr. a.) supply of cartridges
kept near assembling point of a corps, to be
issued on mobilization;
obturatrice, self-seating cartridge;
depansement, (med.) first-aid packet;
poche it s, cartridge pouch;
iipoudre, blank cartridge;
s de sac, v. s de snrete;
speciale, self-igniting cartridge;
s de swretl, cartridge issued
etc.;
to the guard,
de tir reduit,
tridge;
(sm. a.) gallery practice car-
de tube d, tir, subcaliber cartridge.
cartoucherie, f., cartridge factory.
cartouchiere, f.. (sm. a.) cartridge-box; (sometimes)
quick-loader;
automatique, box in which the cartridges
are pushed out by a spring to the same point,
one after another.
cascade, f., (top.) cascade, waterfall, falls.
cascane, f., (mil. min.) cascan, shaft from terreplein
near rampart (obs.).
case, f., cabin, hut; compartment, pigeon-hole;
(in blank forms) divisions made by lines cutting
columns at right angles; (mil. min.) intersection
of several galleries;
aux charges, (art.) cartridge compartment
of an ammunition chest;
aux obus, shell compartment of an ammunition
chest;
au.x projectiles, projectile compartment of an
ammunition chest.
casemate, f., (fott.) casemate;
armee, (art.) casemate supplied with its
equipments;
d canon , gun-casemate (direct fire) ;
de contrescarpe, counterscarp casemate,
under the glacis, at the salients of the front;
defensive, generic term for gun-casemate;
d I'epreuve, bomb-proof casemate,;
d'escarpe, scarp casemate, opposite and facing
a ditch;
b, etages, tiered casemate;
b, un (deux) etage(s), singlecasemate;
(double-) tier
-de flanquement, flanking casemate
times equivalent to caponier) ;
d'habitation, casemate-quarters;
b, la Haxo, Haxo casemate;
logement, casemate-quarters;
de revers, counterscarp casemate;
(some-
servie, (art.) casemate ready to open fire;
tete de , head of a casemate, part turned toward
enemy;
fc tir indirect, indirect-fire (mortar, generally)
casemate.
casemater, v. a., (fort.) to casemate.
caser, v. a. to , put away; to put away in a pigeonhole;
to pigeonhole.
caserne, f., (mil.) barracks;
blindee, (s. c.fort.) armored barrack.
casernement, m., (mil.) barracking, quartering
in barracks; (Fr. a.) a generic term for all
buildings, etc., used for the service or duties,
quarters, and instruction of the men, for administrative
departments, etc.;
commission de , (Fr. a.) board of officers
which fixes yearly the distribution and
assignment of barracks and of hired quarters,
determining the number of men to be
sheltered, etc.;
effets de , barrack-equipage;
masse de , barrack-fund;
officier de , (Fr. a.) lieutenant who, under
the major, is responsible for the details of the
casernement;
remettre un , to turn over barracks to troops;
remise de , turning over barracks to troops;
reprendre un , ( Fr. a.) to take over barracks
quitted by troops (engineers and intendance);
reprise de , taking over of barracks quitted
by troops.
casemer, v. a., n., (mil.) to quarter, be quartered
, in barracks ;
faire , to put into barracks.
casernier, m., (mil.) barrack-keeper, caretaker.
easier, m v set of pigeonholes for papers;
judiciaire, (Fr. adm.) record kept by each
civil court (in pigeonholes, hence name) of
all legal proceedings, civil or military, against
every person born in the district (anondissement).
casque, m., (unif.) helmet;
colonial, cork helmet worn by colonial
troops;
d pointe, German "pickelhaube."
casquette, f., cap; (mil. slang) bugle call "aux
champs;"
la , (in camp) signal of the arrival of the
mail.
cassage, m., crushing (as of ore).
cassant, a., (met.) brittle, short;
ttchaud, hot-short, red-short;
&froid, cold-short.
cassation, f., (mil.) reduction to the ranks; (law)
reversal of sentence of lower court;
cour de , court of appeals; in France, supreme
court.
casse, f., (met.) crucible; (mil.) cashiering (obs.).
casseam, m., pi., (hipp.) clamps used in French
mode of castration.
casse-cou, m., (man.) horse-breaker, roughrider.
casser, v. a., to break, snap; (mil.) to reduce to
the ranks; (law) to reverse, set aside a decision,
a verdict;
les genopes, to break the stops (of a flag);
de son rang et remettre, replacer, soldat, to
reduce a. n. c. o. to the ranks.
casse-tete, m., sand bag, loaded stick.
cassette, f., box, casing, case.
casseur, m., de sucre d 4 sous, (mil. slang)
member of a compagnie de discipline.
cassine, f., (fort.) fortlet of no importance; town
or post not susceptible of defense; small isolated
country house that may be defended
(Marbot); (met.) limestone flux.
cassure, f., (met.) fracture;
concho'ide, conchoidal fracture;
crystalline, crystalline fracture;
d eclats, splintering fracture;
b, "fibres, fibreuse, fibrous fracture;
b, fines fibres, silky fracture;
b, grosses fibres, fracture of coarse fiber;
& grain(s), aranulaire, granular fracture;
inegale, unequal fracture;
lamelleuse, lamellar fracture;
b, nerf, fibrous fracture.
castor, m., castorin, m., (mil. slang) officer that
rarely leaves his garrison.
castoriscr, v. a., (mil. slang) to like to make a
long stay in a pleasant garrison town.
eastrametation, f., (mil.) castrametation.
castration, f., (hipp.) castration, gelding; (of a
mare) spaying (rare);