cannelure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French cannelure.
Noun
cannelure (plural cannelures)
- (firearms) A ringlike groove, such as that around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling.
References
Anagrams
French
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French, first attested in 1545 as canneleüre; from canneler (“provide with a channel”), from canne.
Pronunciation
Noun
cannelure f (plural cannelures)
- groove (linear indent)
- (botany) striation (on a plant)
- (architecture) flute (on a column)
References
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
Further reading
- “cannelure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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