Lunette

Definition:

  • (n.) A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.
  • (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.
  • (n.) A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.
  • (n.) A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.
  • (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.
  • (n.) An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage.

Compare lunette with other words:

cunette vs. lunette

basin vs. lunette

dune vs. lunette

guillotine vs. lunette

lunette vs. monstrance

hole vs. lunette

host vs. lunette

glass vs. lunette

lunette vs. receptacle

flank vs. lunette

lunette vs. parallel

lunette vs. wedge

extend vs. lunette

face vs. lunette

lunette vs. project

lunette vs. window

door vs. lunette

lunette vs. recess

lunette vs. void

crescent vs. lunette

circular vs. lunette

lunette vs. vault

lunette vs. roof

lunette vs. opening

luna vs. lunette

lunette vs. meniscus