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Capon
| Глоссарий морской лексики и терминологии (английский язык) |
A jeering name for the red-herring.
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Caponniere, английский
In fortification, a passage across the bottom of the ditch, covered, at the least, by a parapet on each side, and very generally also with a bomb-proof roof, when it may be furnished with many guns, which are of great importance in the defence of a fortress, as the besieger can hardly silence them till he has constructed batteries on the brink of the ditch.
Caplin, or capelin, английский
A fish of the family clupeid?, very similar to a smelt; frequently imported from newfoundland dried. it is the general bait for cod-fish there.
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