Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., a mine with a charge so small as not to produce any crater when exploded.
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- noun military The resulting
cavity in a deep underground burst when there is norupture of thesurface .
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Examples
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One was set to "camouflet" the automobile van for the pigeons which, carried in baskets on the men's backs in charges, were released as another means of sending word of the progress of an attack obscured in the shell-smoke.
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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To "camouflet" became a new English verb British planes tested out a battery's visibility from the air.
My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915
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If I read this computer correctly, we are dealing with a contingency demolition setup called a photon-blast camouflet system.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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She said the two of them were talking about whether to tell the other Haluk about the photon camouflet and try to escape.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Because of the confined space in the cavern, the great heat of the camouflet will suck air out of the tunnel as the cavern contents flash and burn — as materials oxidize.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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The camouflet feature means that surrounding rock strata will not be significantly damaged.
Perseus Spur May, Julian, 1931- 1998
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Working parties were heavy, and on one occasion the Bosche blew a camouflet while work was in progress.
The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918 John W. [Editor] Arthur
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Thereupon, the ordinary tongue gives camouflet as the synonym for soufflet.
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Thereupon, the ordinary tongue gives camouflet [42] as the synonym for soufflet.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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The belligerent pundit who has flung in the face of peaceful geologists this octavo _camouflet_ of his scientific lucubrations professes to have scoured the surface and ravaged the bottom (in a suit of patent sub-marine Scriptural armor) of a no less abysmal subject than the cryptology of Genesis, -- to have undermined with his sapping intellect and blown up with his explosive wisdom the walled secrets of time and eternity, carrying away with him in the shape of plunder a whole cargo of the plans and purposes of the Omnipotent in the Creation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
chained_bear commented on the word camouflet
"a stinking combustible, blown out of paper cases, into the miner’s faces, when they are at work in the galleries of the countermines." (see also gallery, sappers. Citation in list description)
October 10, 2008