Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milit., the chamber of a mine in which the powder is lodged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mil.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
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- noun military The
chamber of amine in which thepowder is placed.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He saw Minks standing with Jane Anne again by the fourneau, picking at his ear.
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Beyond her perched Daddy, on the music stool, leaning his back against the unlighted fourneau.
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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_fourneau_ for _la famille anglaise_ in the mornings, and the mother, knowing a little English, spelt out the weather reports in the _Daily
A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910
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J'estois en une telle angoisse que je ne scaurois dire: car j'estois tout tari et deseche a cause du labeur et de la chaleur du fourneau; il y avoit plus d'un mois que ma chemise n'avoit seiche sur moy, encores pour me consoler on se moquoit de moy, et mesme ceux qui me devoient secourir alloient crier par la ville que je faisois brusler le plancher: et par tel moyen l'on me faisoit perdre mon credit et m'estimoit-on estre fol.
Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance Samuel Smiles 1858
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