tenaille

English

Etymology

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

Noun

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum < teneō. Cf. Occitan, Portuguese tenalha.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /tənaj/

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Noun

tenaille f (plural tenailles)

1. pincer (tool)

Verb

tenaille

1. first-person singular present indicative of tenailler
2. third-person singular present indicative of tenailler
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tenailler
4. first-person singular present subjunctive of tenailler
5. second-person singular imperative of tenailler

Anagrams

• entaille, entaillé