LUNETTE

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge.

A kind of watch crystal which is more than ordinarily flattened in the center; also, a species of convexoconcave lens for spectacles.

A piece of felt to cover the eye of a vicious horse.

Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

An iron shoe at the end of the stock of a gun carriage. Lunette window (Arch.), a window which fills or partly fills a lunette.