BLINDAGE

Definition: BLINDAGE

BLINDAGE

Noun

1. A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Blindage \Blind"age\, noun. [Compare to the French expression blindage.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Building & Civil Engineering	A finer material, such as sand, muram, used for filling the interstices of metal, or for forming a smooth running surface. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: BLINDAGE

Non-English Usage: "BLINDAGE" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (armour plate, armouring, blindage, plating, timbering).

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Language		Translations for "BLINDAGE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		blindazh. (various references)

Bulgarian		блиндаж. (various references)

Dutch		afvlakken (blinding, flattening, level down, levelling, levelling down high spots, make flush, planning, smooth, smoothing). (various references)

French		blindage, matériau de fermeture (blinding). (various references)

German		Verstopfen (blinding, block, block up, bordering, choke, choke up, clog, congest, constipate, engorge, formation plugging, foul, gumming, jam, jam up, occlude, plug, plug up, plugging, stop, stop up, to constipate, to engorge, to occlude), Verblenden (blind, blindfold, blinding, face), Glaetten (blinding, glazing, polishing, scraping, smoothing). (various references)

Greek		υλικόν επικαλύψεως (blinding). (various references)

Hungarian		fedezék (booby-hutch, cover, dugout, dug-out, entrenchment, foxhole, shelter). (various references)

Italian		materiale di riempimento (blinding, filler, mineral filler). (various references)

Pig Latin		indageblay

Portuguese		blindagem (armature, Armor, armour, cap, plating, screen, screening, sheathing, shield, shielding, shroud), proteção (aegis, backing, care, convoy, cover, defence, defense, Eglantine, Favor, favour, fostering, guard, guardianship, household troops, maintenance, palladium, patroness, protection, protectorship, safekeeping, safety, saving, security, shield, shroud, tower, umbrella, ward), material de selagem (blinding), defesa (advantage, aegis, avail, behoof, boot, breastwork, Bunce, cover-point, defence, defense, egis, fender, firelock, household troops, interdictory, maintop, Parry, pleading, preservative, profit, protection, save, security, shield, spar, tower, vindication, ward). (various references)

Romanian		blindaj (Armor, armour, lining, shield, shroud). (various references)

Russian		блиндаж. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bunker (bin, blockhouse, bunker), zaklon (cover, covert, entrenchment, refuge, screen, shelter, splasher). (various references)

Spanish		blindaje (accident shiel, Armor, armor plate, armor plating, armour, armour plate, armour plating, armour-plating, hootch, plating, protection, screen, screening, sheeting, shield, shielding), material de sellado (blinding, sealant). (various references)

Swedish		blindering, glättning (blinding, glazing, smoothing). (various references)

Ukranian		бліндаж (dug-out). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "BLINDAGE": blindages. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "BLINDAGE" (pronounced 'Blind"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Demorage, Disusage, Dockage, Domage, Doomage, Dosage, Drainage, Drayage, Driftage, Drownage, Dumpage, Eatage, Encourage. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-l-n"
	-1 letter: aligned, balding, beading, dealing, leading.
	-2 letters: alined, angled, bailed, baling, banged, bangle, beglad, bilged, bindle, binged, dangle, denial, dingle, engild, gabled, gained, genial, lading, lagend, ligand, linage, nailed.
	-3 letters: abide, agile, ailed, algid, algin, alien, align, aline, angel, angle, anile, badge, bagel, baled, baned, began, begin, being, belga, bield, bilge, binal, binge, blade.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-g-i-l-n"
	+1 letter: beladying, belauding, blindages.
	+2 letters: bedabbling, bedazzling, begladding.
	+3 letters: bedraggling, diagnosable.
	+4 letters: backpedaling, childbearing, debilitating, deliberating, descrambling, diagnoseable, speedballing, unbridgeable.
	+5 letters: backpedalling, childbearings, destabilizing, detribalizing, disassembling, indefatigable, indefatigably, radiolabeling, undiagnosable.
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