tenaillen.

/tɪˈneɪl/

Forms: 1500s–1700s tenaile, 1600s tenal, 1700s–1800s tenail, 1600s– tenaille.

Etymology: French tenaille /tənɑj/ forceps (12th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), also in Fortification as in sense 2 (16th cent. in Littré) = Provençal tenalhia , Italian tanaglia < Latin tenācula , plural of tenāculum holder: see tenaculum n. 1.

†1. plural. Pincers, forceps: cf. tenaculum n. 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers

tongsc725

tongsc890

pinsons1356

turkis1390

pincersa1400

twitches?a1425

pinching iron1519

pincette?1533

spinsers1539

pincher1573

twitcher1573

tenailles1597

quitch1600

tenalia1603

forceps1634

vellicle1676

snapdragon1833

1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 98 To doe that operation, thou shalt be meetest, and with smallest paine to be done, with Tenals incisiues.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at 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 or double tenaille), placed before the curtain between two bastions. tenaille of the place, the face of a fortress: see face n. 18.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angle re-entering between bastions

tenaille1589

tenalia1649

1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 33 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres The defences in so small Forts as these proceede chiefly, either of bulwarks, halfe bulwarks, and tenailes [etc.].

1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 81 All sort of Works by which the Camp is invironed, and shut up, as Redoubts, Bastions, Ravelins, Forts, Tennailes, Hornworks [etc.].

1708 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Sept. They will fill up the Ditch, in order to storm the Tenaile.

1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 214 A second party of forty or fifty men..attacked a tenaille which by its fire flanked one of the breaches.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tenaille
释义	tenaillen. /tɪˈneɪl/ Forms: 1500s–1700s tenaile, 1600s tenal, 1700s–1800s tenail, 1600s– tenaille. Etymology: French tenaille /tənɑj/ forceps (12th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), also in Fortification as in sense 2 (16th cent. in Littré) = Provençal tenalhia , Italian tanaglia < Latin tenācula , plural of tenāculum holder: see tenaculum n. 1. †1. plural. Pincers, forceps: cf. tenaculum n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > clutching or gripping equipment > [noun] > tongs or pincers tongsc725 tongsc890 pinsons1356 turkis1390 pincersa1400 twitches?a1425 pinching iron1519 pincette?1533 spinsers1539 pincher1573 twitcher1573 tenailles1597 quitch1600 tenalia1603 forceps1634 vellicle1676 snapdragon1833 1597 P. Lowe Art Chirurg. (1634) 98 To doe that operation, thou shalt be meetest, and with smallest paine to be done, with Tenals incisiues. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at 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 or double tenaille), placed before the curtain between two bastions. tenaille of the place, the face of a fortress: see face n. 18. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > angle re-entering between bastions tenaille1589 tenalia1649 1589 P. Ive Pract. Fortification 33 in tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres The defences in so small Forts as these proceede chiefly, either of bulwarks, halfe bulwarks, and tenailes [etc.]. 1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 81 All sort of Works by which the Camp is invironed, and shut up, as Redoubts, Bastions, Ravelins, Forts, Tennailes, Hornworks [etc.]. 1708 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Sept. They will fill up the Ditch, in order to storm the Tenaile. 1886 N. L. Walford Parl. Generals of Civil War 214 A second party of forty or fifty men..attacked a tenaille which by its fire flanked one of the breaches. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1589
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