prolonge

See also: prolongé

English

Etymology

French. See prolong.

Noun

prolonge (plural prolonges)

1. (military) A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prolonge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɔ.lɔ̃ʒ/

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Verb

prolonge

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