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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[F., a pair of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr. L.

tenaculum

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(Fort.)

An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of

See also: tenaille

tenaillé m ‎(feminine singular tenaillée, masculine plural tenaillés, feminine plural tenaillées)