Definition of lunette Lunette

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We found 15 definitions of lunette from 6 different sources.

What does lunette mean?

Noun Plural: lunettes
lunette - oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault
		fenestella
		opening the act of opening something; "the ray of light revealed his cautious opening of the door"
lunette - temporary fortification like a detached bastion

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lunette (Noun)
A type of flattened glass used in watch-making.
lunette (Noun)
The circular hole in the guillotine in which the victim's neck is placed.
lunette (Noun)
See lunettes.

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

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 in connection with other works. Prize-masters will recollect that lunette is also the French name for a spy-glass or telescope.

lunette
A field-work consisting of two faces forming a salient angle, or one projecting towards the enemy, and two flanks parallel, or nearly so, to the capital or imaginary line bisecting the salient angle. In shape it is like the gable end of a house. It is intended for the defense of avenues, farm-houses, bridges, and the curtains of field-works.
lunette
An iron ring at the end of the trail of a field-piece, which is placed over the pintle-hook of the limber in limbering up the gun. The term is also applied to the hole through an iron plate on the under side of the stock of a siege-piece, into which the pintle of the limber passes when the piece is limbered.