lunette

• ⇰ अर्धचन्द्रक

• ⇰ A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion>.
• ⇰ A half horseshoe, which lacks 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.