chasselas (shas-la), n.m., grapes, chasselas.
chasse-marée, n.m., (—) fish-cart; driver of a fish-cart; lugger.
chasse-mouches, n.m., (—) fly-flap; fly-net.
chasse-mulet, n.m., (—, or —-—s) miller’s man.
chasse-neige, n.m., snow-plow.
chasse-pierres, n.m., (—) (railways) guard-iron, cow-catcher; catapult.
*chasse-poignée, n.m., (—, or —-—s) cutler’s tool, driver.
chassepot, n.m., name of the rifle in use in the French army until 1871.
chasser, v.a., to hunt, to chase, to pursue; to beat (gold); to turn out, to expel; to drive, to drive forward. — un clou; to drive in a nail. — un domestique; to turn away, to discharge, a servant. Qui deux choses chasse, ni l’une ni l’autre ne prend; (prov.) between two stools one falls to the ground. — le mauvais air; to ventilate. Ne pas — deux lièvres à la fois; not to have too many irons in the fire. Un clou chasse l’autre; one idea drives away another. — la terre; (nav.) to approach, to reconnoiter, the coast.
chasser, v.n., to shoot; to hunt; to roll along easily; to drive (of clouds); (print.) to drive out. — au fusil; to shoot. — aux perdrix; to shoot partridges. — aux lions; to hunt lions. — sur son ancre; (nav.) to drag the anchor. — à courre; to hunt, to course. — au faucon; to hawk. — de race; (prov.) to be a chip of the old block. — aux blancs moineaux; to lose one’s time in running after impossibilities.