The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fourneau \Four`neau"\, n. [F.] (Mil.) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
Wiktionary
n. (context military English) The chamber of a mine in which the powder is placed.
Wikipedia
Fourneau is a French surname. It may refer to:
- Ernest Fourneau, medicinal chemist
- Jean-Claude Fourneau, surrealist painter
Usage examples of "fourneau".
Two gold earrings in his ears, and plentiful tattooing upon his hands and arms, told us also that he was of the sea before he introduced himself to us as Captain Fourneau, of the Emperor&csq.
There was Captain Fourneau himself upon the deck, and seven or eight rough fellows hard at work grooming her and making her ready for sea.
For the most part, however, my duties were to play écarté with Captain Fourneau, and to act as his companion.
At last one evening, as Captain Fourneau and I were playing écarté in the cabin, the mate entered with an angry look upon his sunburned face.
On the evening of the third day I found Captain Fourneau gazing eagerly out from the platform in the front of the vessel.
I embraced the brave Fourneau, and implored him to tell me how I could assist him.
I wondered what had become of this cordon of which Fourneau had spoken.
Never again in this life did I see Captain Fourneau to tell him the result of my mission.
Il s'en trouve sans nombre dans les montagnes des provinces de Chen-si, de Chan-si, et de Pe-che-li: aussi s'en sert-on pour tous les fourneaux des ouvriers, dans les cuisines de toutes les maisons, et dans les hypocaustes des chambres qu'on allume tout l'hyver.