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Webster 1913 Edition

Tenaille

Te-naille′

,
Noun.
[F., a pair of pincers or tongs, a tenaille, fr. L.
tenaculum
. See
Tenaculum
.]
(Fort.)
An outwork in the main ditch, in front of the curtain, between two bastions. See Illust. of
Ravelin
.

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