† fourneaun.
Etymology: < French fourneau, lit. oven, Old French fornel < late Latin type furnellus, diminutive of furnus (French four) oven.
Military.
Obsolete.
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > explosive device > [noun] > land-mine > cavity in which mine is placed
1678 tr. L. de Gaya 56 Blowing up the Bastions of a Place besieged, by means of Mines and Fourneaus.
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