Pan

French-English Dictionary of Military Terms · 1918 · p. 3

Flat side or face (of wall, of roof, of hexagonal or octagonal nut, etc.). Surface, face (of cam). Flap (of coat)—Six-pans. Hexagon nut.—Huit-pans. Octagonal nut.—Pan creux. Hollow of sword blade, fullering—Pan coupé. Cut off corner of a room. Blunted salient of redan.—Pan de mur. Bare wall, piece of wall. [p.410]