Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In field-fortification, the inside line of the parapet, so traced as to resemble the teeth of a saw, in order to afford the advantage of bringing a heavier fire to bear upon the defile than if only a simple face were opposed to it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Fort.) An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.
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In the midst of a frame of light wood sits the operator, steadying himself with one hand, and with the other fuming a cremaillere, which appears to give a very quick rotatory movement to two glass globes revolving upon
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This was a cremaillere infantry breastwork of strong profile, with heavy enclosed redoubts at distances of 700 and 800 yards, having defensive relations to each other.
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About a month later, toward the middle of March, she had so far regained her equanimity as to allow herself, after a steady resistance, to be persuaded by a friend to attend her house-warming ball -- "pendre la cremaillere," as they call it in Paris.
The Malady of the Century Max Simon Nordau 1886
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