TRANSPORTER, Fr. To transfer, to remove, to change the situation of any thing.
Transporter les files et les rangs d’un bataillon dans les evolutions, Fr. To change files or ranks in military evolutions. To countermarch any given number of men so as to place the right where the left stood, and make the front rank take the ground that was occupied by rear, with a different aspect. See [Countermarch].
When the countermarch is effected on the centre, or by a central conversion, the French distinguish, and use the phrase—Faire le moulinet; from the similarity of movement round a central point; moulinet signifying capstan, turn-stile, &c.
TRANSPOSER les files d’un bataillon dans les évolutions, Fr. To change the relative position of files in a battalion, that is, to countermarch the whole so as to make the natural front stand where the rear did, and to place those on the left that originally stood on the right.
TRAP. See [Ambush], [Stratagem], &c.
TRAPE, Fr. A falling door.
TRAPEZE, Fr. See [Trapezium].
TRAPEZOID, (Trapezoide, Fr.) A figure in geometry which is formed by the circumvolution of a trapezium, in the same manner that a cylinder is by that of a parallelogram.
TRAPEZIUM. A quadrilateral or square figure whose four sides and angles are unequal, and no sides are parallel.
TRAPPINGS. See [Housings].