Alimentation

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

Feeding. Subsistence. Feed (of machine, also of automatic machine gun).—Alimentation en eau. Water supply.—Alimentation des cai es. Supply of army funds to pay offices—Mécan is me d’alimentation. Feed mechanism (of machine-gun, etc.)—Prime d’alimentation. See Prime. [p.23]