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Definition of Boyau
1. n. A winding or zigzag trench forming a path or communication from one siegework to another, to a magazine, etc.
Definition of Boyau
1. Noun. (military defense) In military fortification, a trench or ditch covered with a parapet that provides communication between two trenches, particularly the rear and front lines. Boyaus were typically constructed in a zigzag pattern to prevent exposure to direct enemy fire from the front. ¹
2. Noun. A line, drawn winding about, in order to enclose several tracts of land, or to attack some works. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boyau
1. a communication trench [n BOYAUX]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boyau
Literary usage of Boyau
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"boyau, sf gut ; bowel. // a toujours six aunes de boyaux vides, he is always
ravenously hungry. Il a failli rendre tripes et boyaux, he almost turned his ..."
2. French for Soldiers: Prepared for the Department of University Extension by Arthur Fisher Whittem, Percy Waldron Long (1917)
"9, Nous sommes sortis do ba tranchée par be boyau d'évacuation. 10. 115 sont
venus me voir. 11. Nous avons regardé lea fossés, lea palissades ot bes sillons ..."
3. The Mexican War Diary of George B. McClellan by George Brinton McClellan (1917)
"in boyau between Nos. 1 and 2, just in front of the entrance of the large ...
1, it being intended to run a boyau from behind this traverse to the left of ..."
4. From Vauquois Hill to Exermont: A History of the Thirty-fifth Division of by Clair Kenamore (1919)
"From there the cables follow the line of the boyau de GRATZ into VAUQUOIS.
TUNNELS: Tbe tunnels opening on the N. slope of VAUQUOIS come out on the ..."
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