Mania

A waterproof canvas, five feet square used as a … cover. It serves to protect the loads in transit, during da … find rainy weather, and is used Iot … tet … the stores ft00 the packers, when in camp. covering that hu ars or light infantry troops carry to shield their bodies from the inclemencies of the weather and to spread over their heads, by means of poles, when they halt, and take a position. Mantelet. — In fortification, a musket-proof shield used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortre , or of gunners at embrasures. Commonly written mantlet. Hautillls — A kind of shield, anciently fixed upon the tops of ships as a cover for archers. long flowing robe, worn in the Middle Ages, over the armor, and fastened by a fibula in front, or at the right shoulder. ttonet. — A small piece of wood or iron, which is notched, for the purpose of hanging anything upon it. The pegs in soldier's rooms are sometimes so called. aval. — A prescribed exercise in the systematic handling of a weapon; as, the manual of arms; the manual of the sword; the manual of the piece: also, a small book of reference conveniently carried in the hand, as ordnance manual, etc. of Arms. — An exercise with the rifle, through which recruits are drilled. See Order Arms, Present Arms, Port Arms, Right Shoulder Arms, etc. ual of the Color. — Prescribed movements of the color. At the carry the heel of the pike rests in the sock of the sling; at the order it rests on the ground near the right toe; at parade rest it is on the ground as at the order, the pike being held with both hands in front of the center of the body, the left hand uppermost; the color salute, when at a carry is executed by slipping the right hand up the pike to the height of the eye, then lowering the pike by straightening the arm to the front.