Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tenaille

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tenaille
IPA
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.

Etymology

From French tenaille (“a pair of pincers or tongs”), from its pincer-like shape, from Latin tenāculum. See tenaculum and tenaillon.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: tenaille, tenāculum

Inflected Forms

tenailles (plural)

Questions

What does tenaille mean?
An outwork in the main ditch of a fortification, in front of the curtain, between two bastions.
Where does tenaille come from?
It is traced to French.

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