crémaillère

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French crémaillère.

Noun

crémaillère (plural crémaillères)

1. An indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “crémaillère”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin cramaculus, alteration of cremasculus, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κρεμαστήρ (kremastḗr).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁe.ma.jɛʁ/

Noun

crémaillère f (plural crémaillères)

1. trammel
2. (rail transport) rack, rack-and-pinion
3. (military) crémaillère (indented or zigzagging line of entrenchment used in fortification)

Derived terms

• pendaison de crémaillère

Descendants

• → Catalan: cremallera
• → English: crémaillère
• → Spanish: cremallera

Further reading

• “crémaillère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.