Madrier
- n. A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.
- n. A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes
- n. A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.