fourneau

English

Etymology

French

Noun

fourneau (plural fourneaus or fourneaux)

  1. (military) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 fourneau in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

French

Etymology

Diminutive of Old French forn (“oven”) (Modern French four) with suffix -eau, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *furnellus, from Latin furnus. Compare Italian fornello.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fuʁ.no/
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Noun

fourneau m (plural fourneaux)

  1. stove (cooker)
  2. stove (heater)
  3. chamber (of a tobacco pipe)
  4. (slang, archaic) beggar, hobo

Further reading

Middle French

Noun

fourneau m (plural fourneaulx)

  1. furnace
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