crémaillère
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French crémaillère. Doublet of cremaster.
Noun
editcrémaillère (plural crémaillères)
- An indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “crémaillère”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French cramail + -ière, from Latin cramalius, cramalium, cramaculus, cramaculum (“trammel”), alteration of cremasculus, cremasculum (“trammel”), diminutive of cremaster from Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcrémaillère f (plural crémaillères)
- trammel; a type of hook from which a cooking pot can be suspended over a hearth fire at different heights as needed for the right cooking temperature
- (rail transport) rack, rack-and-pinion
- (military) crémaillère (indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification)
- ellipsis of pendaison de crémaillère; housewarming
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → Catalan: cremallera
- → English: crémaillère
- → Spanish: cremallera
Further reading
edit- “crémaillère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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