boyau
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French boyau. Doublet of bowel.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboyau (plural boyaus or boyaux)
- (military) A small trench or ditch, typically built in a zigzag pattern, serving to connect or provide communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines.
- A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works.
Translations
editReferences
edit- (military definition) Military Earthworks Terms, Historic Landscape Initiative, National Park Service. URL accessed 2007-01-29.
- (winding line definition) 1728, Cyclopaedia, a publication in the public domain.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French boïel, bouel, from Latin botellus.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editboyau m (plural boyaux)
- (anatomy) gut, intestine (of an animal, or, informally of a human)
- catgut, gut
- (military) communication trench, boyau
- hose, e.g. a firehose
Synonyms
edit- (gut): intestin
Descendants
edit- → English: boyau
See also
editFurther reading
edit- “boyau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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