tenaillon

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word tenaillon. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word tenaillon, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say tenaillon in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word tenaillon you have here. The definition of the word tenaillon will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition oftenaillon, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

From French tenaillon. See tenaille.

Noun

tenaillon (plural tenaillons)

  1. (military, historical) A work constructed on each side of the ravelins to increase their strength, procure additional ground beyond the ditch, or cover the shoulders of the 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “tenaillon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia