tenaille

From French tenaille (“a pair of pincers or tongs”), from Latin tenaculum. See tenaculum and tenaillon.

tenaille (plural tenailles)

1. (military, historical) An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.

• “tenaille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

From Vulgar Latin tenacula, taken as a feminine singular of Latin tenaculum, from teneō. Compare Occitan and Portuguese tenalha.

• IPA^(key): /tə.naj/

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• Homophones: tenaillent, tenailles, Thenaille, Thenailles

tenaille f (plural tenailles)

1. pincer (tool)

tenaille

1. inflection of tenailler:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “tenaille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• entaille, entaillé