cannelure

Borrowed from French cannelure.

cannelure (plural cannelures)

1. (firearms) A ringlike groove, such as that around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating band of a gun projectile to lessen the resistance offered to the rifling.

• US Army Dictionary

• uncleaner

From French cannelure.

• IPA^(key): /kɑ.nɛˈlu.rə/

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• Hyphenation: can‧ne‧lu‧re

cannelure m (plural cannelures, diminutive canneluretje n)

1. (architecture) flute (groove in a column)

From Middle French, first attested in 1545 as canneleüre; from canneler (“provide with a channel”), from canne.

• IPA^(key): /kan.lyʁ/

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cannelure f (plural cannelures)

1. groove (linear indent)
2. (botany) striation (on a plant)
3. (architecture) flute (on a column)

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Cannelure”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

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