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Camonflet

Ca*mon"flet\, n. [F.] (Mil.) A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. --Farrow.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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