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chaudiere 76 chef
chaudiere, lit de pose d'une , boiler setting;
marine, marine boiler;
& petit cheval, v. auxiliaire;
a basse (haute, moycnne) pression, low (high,
mean) pressure boiler;
de raffinage, refining boiler (e. g., for saltpeter);
rcctangulairc. box boiler;
a ret.our deflammc,
return-flame boiler;
sectionnelle, sectional boiler, water-tube
boiler;
semi-tubulaire, boiler in which the lower
heater (bouilleur) has its place taken by
tubes;
support de , knee;
&. en, tombeau, wagon boiler; caravan
boiler;
tubuluire, h tubes, tubulee, (ordi-
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nary) tubular boiler (i. e. , fire-tube);
en V, Thornycroft, Yarrow, boiler;
h vaporisation instantanee, instantaneous
generator.
chaudronnerie, f., coppersmith's trade, (more
extensively) plate-working in general;
or bars; boiler
grosse work in , heavy plates
making;
petite work in , light plates, etc., done by
hand.
cliaudronnier, m., coppersmith, plate-worker;
boiler maker; (mil. slang) cuirassier.
chauffage, m., fuel; firing; heating of bar-,
racks and quarters; stoking; heating (in
general);
bois de , firewood;
d'un coussinet, d'un essieu, (much.)
heating of a bearing;
& la vapeur, steam heating.
chauffe, f., stokehole; furnace; fire-hole of a furnace;
(met.) fireplace (as of a reverberatory
furnace); (met.) action of heating;
donner une , (met.) to heat;
dufourneau, fire-hole of a furnace;
surface de , heating surface.
chauffer, v. a., to heat, to warm; to fire up;
(steam') to get up steam; to keep in fuel,
give firing to; (mil.) to grow hot (of a combat
fam.); (hipp.) to grow heated, as a result of
injury;
blanc, (met.) to bring to a white heat (and
similarly of the other heats, v. chaude);
une forteresse, une troupe, (mil.) to
keep up a brisk, steady fire on a fort, a body
of troops;
h la vapeur, to heat by steam.
chaufferie, f., (met.) bar-iron furnace; (steam,
etc.) stokehole, fire-box; range of boilers.
chauffeur, m., fireman, stoker.
chauffure, f., (met.) brittleness; burnt, overburnt,
iron.
chaufour, m., limekiln,
chausse, f.,sock;
s, breeches;
d'aisances, waste-pipe, soil-pipe.
chaussee, f., high road; causeway; (more
narrowly) the central part of a road, the carriage
way;
bombce, barreled road;
de branchage, road of mattress of boughs,
etc., for swampy ground;
en deblai, road formed by cutting;
en empierrement, metaled road;
ferree, metaled road;
d la MacAdam, macadamisee, macadamized
road;
en pave, paved highway;
en remblai, road formed by filling in, as a
sustaining wall, by embankment;
de tronc d'arbres, corduroy road.
cliausser, v. a., to put on (stockings, shoes);
(man.) to stick the feet home in the stirrups;
les eperons aux ennemis, (mil.) to pursue the
enemy;
les etriers, (man.) to ride with feet home
in the stirrups.
chausse-trape, f., (mil.) crow's-foot, caltrop.
chaussette, f., sock;
s, (mil. slang) gloves.
chausson, m., (Fr. a.) kind of buskin or sock,
of fiannel, etc., worn over stockings, and issued
to mounted men, to men in camp, etc.;
s, (art.) magazine slippers.
chaussure, f., footwear, foot-covering; shoe of a
pile;
exploratrice , (man.) Marey pneumatic footbulb
(for registering gaits);
de mobilisation, (Fr. a.) reserve pair of shoes,
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kept in company storehouse;
de pointe d'arcade, (harn.) sort of shoe or
point of a saddle panel, into which the pointe
d'arcade fits;
de repos, (Fr. a.) second pair of shoes (including
gaiters).
cbauvir,
ass).
v. n., to prick up the ears (mule,
chaux, f.,lime;
anhydre, quicklime;
blanc de , whitewash;
cakinee, quicklime;
caustique, quicklime;
crepird la to , whitewash;
donner un blanc de , to whitewash;
eteinte, slaked lime;
eteinte a stc, air-slaked lime;
four & , limekiln;
fusee, slaked lime;
grasse, fat lime, air lime;
hydraulique, hydraulic lime, water lime;
lait de , whitewash;
maigre, poor lime;
morte, dead - burned lime, overburned
lime;
peindre fa la , to whitewash;
picrre ti , limestone;
en poudre, air-slaked lime;
vive, quicklime.
chavirement, m., (nav.) capsizing.
chavirer, v. n., (nav.) to capsize.
Chechia, f., (unif.) long fez worn by Algerian
troops.
chef, m., chief, leader, principal, master, head
(chef in the military vocabulary denotes
either the grade, or the functions or duty,
whether permanent or temporary, of the
person to whom applied; for examples see
infra; it is the term usually employed by
the men to designate the sergeant-major);
'mil.) (in many relations) commanding officer,
armurier, (Fr. a.) chief armorer (regimental);
artificier, (Fr. art. and inf.) chief artificer
(a n. c. o., v. s.'w. marechal and ser-
gent);
d'attaque, (siege) engineer officer (captain,
generally) in charge of the approaches,
etc., in each attack or important part of each
attack; is detailed every day;
de bande, (mil.) guerrilla chief;
de bataillon, (inf.) major;
de battcrie, (art.) c. o. of a battery;
de brigade, colonel (obs.); chief of a brigade
of gendarmerie;
de caisson, n. c. o. in charge of an infantry
battalion ammunition caisson;
de casemate, (art.) sergeant in charge of a
casemate, is also chefde pieces;
de chambree, corporal in charge of a squadroom,
or ranking private if there be no
corporal;
de complot, ringleader;
de convoi, c. o. of a convoy;
de corps, c. o. of any body of troops having
an organic existence or independence,
i. e., generally of a battalion or of a regiment;
the commanding general of an army corps;
in the absence of limitations, chef de corps
may be always safely translated colonel (of a
regiment);
de detachement, c. o. of a detachment;
en , in chief;
d'equipe, foreman of a gang, crew, party,
shop, etc.; (art.) n. c. o. in charge of a mechanical
maneuver;
d'escadron, (art.) major;