D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Camonflet

· Ca·mon·flet · IPA
01 n. A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.
  1. 1.
    A small mine, sometimes formed in the wall or side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners.(Mil.)