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Lunette   Listen
noun
Lunette  n.  
1.
(Fort.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
2.
(Far.) A half horseshoe, which lacks the sponge.
3.
A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
4.
A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
5.
(Arch.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
6.
An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.
Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.





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"Lunette" Quotes from Famous Books



... the lawyers were disputing about a canal of which only one-half was finished, Don Jose de Manterola began to doubt even of the possibility of carrying the plan into execution. I took the level of the ground with a lunette d'epreuve, on an artificial horizon, and found, that the dam had been constructed eight feet too low. What sums of money have I seen expended uselessly in the Spanish colonies, for undertakings founded ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt
... from the northern side. Here the fort was protected by a demi-bastion, next to the sea; and by the Royal Bastion, the wall between the two being covered by a work known as the North Ravelin. The defence was also strengthened by the fire of the northwest lunette, and Pigot's Bastion. ...
— With Clive in India - Or, The Beginnings of an Empire • G. A. Henty
... detachment from the Seventy-seventh held a small advance redoubt or lunette which had been thrown up by Hancock's men. Over this work the rebels rushed, unmindful of the bullets sent by the skirmishers, and the guard was compelled to retreat ...
— Three Years in the Sixth Corps • George T. Stevens
... LUNETTE. In fortification, a work composed of two faces meeting in a salient angle, from the inner extremities of which two short flanks run towards the rear, leaving an open gorge; it is generally applied only ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
... Coughlan was afterward killed in the heroic performance of duty at the battle of Franklin. See "Franklin," p. 114.] A small hill a few hundred yards in front of the main line better commanded the Marietta road, and upon this I directed Reilly to build a lunette for an advanced guard of a regiment ...
— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V2 • Jacob Dolson Cox


Words linked to "Lunette" :   vault, fortification, munition, opening, fenestella


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