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‖ tenaille|tɪˈneɪl|
Forms: 6–8 tenaile, 7 tenal, 8–9 tenail, 7– tenaille.
[F. tenaille (tənɑj) forceps (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), also in Fortification as in sense 2 (16th c. in Littré) = Pr. tenalhia, It. tanaglia:—L. tenācula, pl. of tenāculum holder: see prec.]
†1. pl. Pincers, forceps: cf. prec., 1. Obs.
1597Lowe Chirurg. (1634) 98 To doe that operation, thou shalt be meetest, and with smallest paine to be done, with Tenals incisiues. 1727Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Cray-fish, They have forked Claws, in the Form of black Tenails, or Pincers.
2. In Fortification, A small low work, consisting of one or two re-entering angles (single tenaille or double tenaille), placed before the curtain between two bastions. tenaille of the place, the face of a fortress: see face n. 17.
1589P. Ive Fortif. 33 The defences in so small Forts as these proceede chiefly, either of bulwarks, halfe bulwarks, and tenailes [etc.]. 1677R. Boyle Treat. Art War 81 All sort of Works by which the Camp is invironed, and shut up, as Redoubts, Bastions, Ravelins, Forts, Tennailes, Hornworks [etc.]. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 63. 4/2 They will fill up the Ditch, in order to storm the Tenaile. 1886N. L. Walford Parl. Generals Grt. Civ. War 214 A second party of forty or fifty men..attacked a tenaille which by its fire flanked one of the breaches. |