tenaille

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English

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Etymology

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From French tenaille (a pair of pincers or tongs), from Latin tenaculum. See tenaculum.

Noun

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tenaille (plural tenailles)

  1. (military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tenaille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from teneō. Compare Occitan and Portuguese tenalha.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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tenaille f (plural tenailles)

  1. pincer (tool)

Verb

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tenaille

  1. inflection of tenailler:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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