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Line 1: [[File:Tenaille.png\|thumb\|diagrams of a tenaille, a [[horn work]] and a [[crown work]].]] '''Tenaille''' (archaic '''Tenalia''') is an advanced defensive-work, in front of the main defences of a [[fortress]] which takes its name from resemblance, real or imaginary, to the lip of a pair of pincers.<ref>Carlyle, [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=uObhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA381#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 381]</ref>It is "from French, literally: tongs, from Late Latin tenācula, pl of tenaculum".<ref>[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tenaille Tenaille] , American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition by Houghton Mifflin Company.</ref>

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