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diet d'escadrons, (car.) major;
d'escouade, (inf.) corporal; squad leader;
d'etat-major, chief of staff;
d'etat-major general de I'armee, (Fr. a.) chief
of the general stall (also called d'etat-major
de I'armee);
de fanfare, (mil.) bandmaster (brass band);
de file, file leader;
T de gare, (r. r.) station-master;
du genie, (Fr.eng.) engineer officer in command
of a chefferie, q. v.; district engineer
(U.S.A.);
lieu, county-town; capital of a departement;
(mil.) seat or headquarters of an administrative
suodivision of the territory (e. g.,
corps d'armee);
-. de
de manoeuvre, (art.) corporal in charge of the
rotation of a turret;
mecanicien, (Fr. art.) master machinist (regimental)
;
de musique, (mil.) bandmaster;
de nage, stroke (in a rowboat) ;
a' ordinaire, (Fr. a.) corporal in charge of
men's mess;
ouvrier, (in gen.) master-workman; (Fr.
art.) employee of the artillery, serving as foreman,
etc. (identical with garde d'artillerie);
(Fr. a.) general designation for any n. c. o.
at the head of a workshop, but more especially
the chief armorer;
d'ouvriers, foreman;
de patrouille, c. o. of a patrol;
de peloton, chief of platoon (section,
British);
de piece, (art.) gunner (U. S. Art.);
de pieces, (art.) sergeant in immediate charge
of the guns of a turret;
de petit poste, c. o. of a picket;
de poste, c. o. of a guard;
de revolte, ringleader of a mutiny, riot,
etc.;
de secteur, (siege) engineer officer in charge of
siege operations in each sector of attack (daily
detail);
de section, (inf.) section leader; (art.) chief
of platoon (U. S. Art.), section commander
(R A.);
de service, (mil.) head of a department or
service (e. g., chief medical officer);
detourelle, (art.) c. o. or n. c. o. in charge of
the service of a turret;
de train, (r. r.) conductor of a train
(U. S.);
de voiture, (art.) chief of piece (hitched).
chefferie, f., (Fr. a.) district under the charge
of a chef du genie, consisting generally of a
main place with its dependencies (sometimes
du genie).
cliemiii, m., road, way, path, track; means,
course; (r.r.)line; (war.) way.
avant couvert, (fort.) advanced covered
way;
- d'acces, avenue;
-couvert, (fort.) covered way;
croisee de s, crossroads;
direct, (nzv.) distance run;
-
tfecoulement, (sm. a.) gas-port (in case of
ruptured shell);
est, (nav.) easting;
^- est et ouest, (nav.) departure;
faire du d Vest, au nord, etc., (nav.) to make
easting, northing, etc.;
defer, railway , railroad;
defer de ceinture, belt railway, belt;
defer a chevaux, horse tramway ;
defer electrique, electric railway;
deferfuniculaire, cable road ;
defer firails
plats, tramroad:
~-deferstrategique, military railway, strategic
railway;
defer d deux, quatre, etc., voies, double-track,
four-track, etc. road , ;
defer d double voie, double-track road ;
defer & voie etroite, & voie reduite, narrowgauge
road;
de fer & voie normale, standard-gauge
road;
defer d une seule voie, de fer d voie unique,
single-track road;
chemin/crr^, metaled road;
grand , high road;
de halage, towpath;
militaire, military road; (fort.) the road between
the works and the houses, etc., of the
town;
'national, high road;
nord, (nav.) northing;
nord et sud, (nav.) difference of latitude;
d ornieres, tramroad;
ouest, (nav.) westing;
particulier, private road;
passant, public road, great thoroughfare;
des pontonniers, (pont.) space between side
rails and ends of chess in military (ponton)
bridges;
de rondc, (fort.) chemin de ronde; exterior
corridor;
de roulement, (art.) roller path;
rural, crossroad;
sud, (nav.) southing;
de "
terre, country road; dirt road
"
(U. S.);
de traverse, crossroad;
vicinal ordinaire, (Fr.) road kept up by a
commune;
vicinal de grande communication et d'interlt
commun, ( Fr.) road kept up by the interested
communes.
cheminee, f., chimney; fireplace; hearth;
smokestack, funnel; (sm. a.) nipple (obs.);
(art.) flame-passage (of a fuse, of a primer,
etc.);
en acier, (sm. a.) barrel-cover (e.g.,of Belgian
Mauser);
d'appel, ventilating shaft, air-shaft (e. g., of a
magazine, etc.);
de la charge, v. supMeure;
d coulisse, (nav.) telescopic funnel;
etai de , chimney stay;
papillon mobile d'une , regulator, damper of
a chimney;
'superieure, (met.) throat and main body
(above bosses) of a blast furnace.
cheminement, m., (in gen.) advance along
a road; (siege) advance of the zigzags toward
the place besieged; the zigzags themselves,
works executed by besiegers in approaching a
a place; progress of siege works; (mil.) approach
or advance of troops to position from which
they are to attack; (top., surv.) method in which
plane-table, etc., is taken from vertex to vertex
of the polygon to be surveyed;
geodcsique, (top.) method of survey consisting
of going from point to point, followed when
from the nature of the ground triangulation is
impossible;
tactique, (mil.) procedure and methods of
measuring paces, steps, gaits, etc., of the various
arms.
cheminer, v. n., to advance, as along a road; (siege)
to push on, advance, the zigzags in siege operations.
chemise, f., shirt; jacket, case, casing; (fort.)
synonym of enceinte; (sm. a.) bullet-jacket, casing,
or mantle; (sm. a.) barrel-casing or -guard;
(steam) steam-jacket; (met.) outer casing, shell,
of a furnace;
de batterie, (fort.) epaulment;
de canon, (sm. a.) barrel-casing or -guar^,
de cheminee, funnel-casing;
dechaudiere, (steam) boiler-casing, cleading,
lagging;
de cylindre, (steam) steam-jacket, cylinder
jacket;
d'eau, water-jacket (e. g., of Gardner gun);
enveloppe, (sm. a.) barrel-casing;
d'escarpement, (fort.) revetment, facing, of a
slope;
de fortification, (fort.) the enceinte of an earthwork;
the main work itself (in permanent fortifications)
when of little strength;
defourneau, lining of a furnace chimney;
metallique. (sm. a.) metallic bullet-cover;
de pierre, (mas., etc.) stone facing;