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camouflet
‖ camouflet Mil. (kamufle) [Fr.: see Littré.] 1. A mine containing a small charge of powder, placed in a wall of earth between the galleries of besieged and besieger, so as, in exploding, to bury, suffocate, or cut off the retreat of the miner on the opposite side; a ‘stifler’.1836 in Penny Cycl. VI... Oxford English Dictionary
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Camouflet
An explosive charge would be detonated to create a camouflet that would collapse the attackers' tunnel. A camouflet set describes a system used in the British Army for cratering tracks and other routes. wikipedia.org
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camouflage
▪ I. camouflage, n. (ˈkæməflɑːʒ) [Fr., f. camouflet camouflet.] The disguising of any objects used in war, such as camps, guns, ships, by means of paint, smoke-screens, shrubbery, etc., in such a way as to conceal it from the enemy; also, the disguise used in this way; freq. attrib.1917 Daily Mail 2... Oxford English Dictionary
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Brigade (band)
On 10 November 2010 a music video for first single from the new EP, "Camouflet" was released through the Rocksound website. wikipedia.org
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stifler
stifler (ˈstaɪflə(r)) [f. stifle v.1 + -er1.] One who or something which stifles, suffocates, smothers, suppresses, etc.1642 H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. ii. xv, You stiflers now be gone. Let fall that smoring mantle. 1829 Scott Demonol. 267 Lord-keeper Guildford was also a stifler of the proceedin... Oxford English Dictionary
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Subsidence crater
Gallery See also Underground nuclear weapons testing Explosion crater Chagan (nuclear test) Sedan (nuclear test) Camouflet Glory hole (mining), specifically wikipedia.org
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Demolition belt
See also Camouflet Land mine References Area denial weapons Force protection tactics Military terminology of the United States wikipedia.org
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L'îlot de La Boisselle
On 5 January, French sappers were heard digging near a gallery and a camouflet was quickly placed in the gallery and blown, collapsing the French digging wikipedia.org
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250th Tunnelling Company
When the enemy blew a camouflet in June, 12 men were trapped by a collapsed tunnel over below the surface. wikipedia.org
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3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company
By October 1916, Hill 60 A had been charged with of explosives and Hill 60 B with of high explosive, despite water-logging and the demolition by a camouflet wikipedia.org
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177th Tunnelling Company
On the morning of 28 April 1916, a German camouflet killed three men of 177th Tunnelling Company, including Lieutenant C. G. Boothby (see below). wikipedia.org
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185th Tunnelling Company
A month before the handover, eighteen men of the 185th Tunnelling Company (2 officers, 16 sappers) died to a German camouflet at La Boisselle on 4 February wikipedia.org
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Mines in the Battle of Messines (1917)
On 27 August, the Germans set a camouflet, which killed four men and wrecked the gallery for ; the mine had been charged and the explosives were left in Peckham 2 was abandoned due to a tunnel collapse and the mine at La Petite Douve Farm was abandoned after the German camouflet blast of The evening before wikipedia.org
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Canadian pipe mine
See also Bangalore torpedo British anti-invasion preparations of World War II British hardened field defences of World War II Camouflet References Footnotes wikipedia.org
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Earthquake bomb
Wallis also argued that, if the bomb penetrated deep enough, the explosion would not breach the surface of the ground and would thus produce a cavern (a camouflet wikipedia.org
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