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Definition of: tenaille
(te·nāl′) noun
A low outwork, usually with one or two reentering angles, in the main ditch between two bastions.
—v.t. To equip with tenailles. Also te·nail′. [<F <LL tenacula, plural of tenaculum. See TENACULUM.]
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