déblai

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déblai.

Noun

déblai

  1. The cavity from which the earth for a fortification's parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “déblai”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Deverbal of déblayer. From Middle French desblay, from Old French desblée, ultimately from Old French blet (“wheat”), from Frankish *blad.

Pronunciation

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Noun

déblai m (plural déblais)

  1. clearing and levelling (of land)
  2. excavation

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