tenaille
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See also: tenaillé
English
Etymology
From French tenaille (“a pair of pincers or tongs”), from Latin tenaculum. See tenaculum.
Noun
tenaille (plural tenailles)
- (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from teneō. Compare Occitan and Portuguese tenalha.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tə.naj/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: tenaillent, tenailles, Thenaille, Thenailles
Noun
tenaille f (plural tenailles)
- pincer (tool)
Verb
tenaille
- inflection of tenailler:
Further reading
- “tenaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.