sauterelle

French sauterelle

sauterelle (plural sauterelles)

1. An instrument used by masons and others to trace and form angles.
2. A type of crossbow for throwing hand grenades or small bombs into enemy trenches, used by the French and British soldiers on the Western Front during World War I.

From sauter +‎ -elle.

• IPA^(key): /so.tʁɛl/

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sauterelle f (plural sauterelles)

1. grasshopper
   • 1984, “Marcia Baïla”, in Rita Mitsouko, performed by Les Rita Mitsouko:

     C’est elle la sauterelle / La sirène en mal d’amour / Le danseur dans la flanelle / Ou le carton

     She is the grasshopper / The lovelorn mermaid / The dancer in the flannel / Or the cardboard

2. (masonry) sauterelle (instrument to trace and form angles)

   Synonym: fausse équerre

• ⇒ Catalan: santanell
• → English: sauterelle

• “sauterelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.