BUTTON, in gunnery, a part of the cascable, in either a gun or howitzer, and is the hind part of the piece, made round in the form of a ball. See [Cannon].
BUTTRESS. See [Counterfort].
BUZE, a wooden, or leaden pipe, to convey the air out of mines.
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CABAS, Fr. a basket made of rushes, used in ancient Languedoc and Roussillon, for the purpose of conveying stores and ammunition. This term is adopted in military inventories.
CABINET Council, a council held with privacy and unbounded confidence.
CABLE ou Chable, Fr. a large rope.
CADENCE, in tactics, implies a very regular and uniform method of marching, by the drum and music, beating time; it may not be improperly called mathematical marching; for after the length of a step is determined, the time and distance may be found. It is by a continual practice and attention to this, that the Prussians arrived at that point of perfection, once so much admired in their evolutions.
Cadence or Cadency, in cavalry, is an equal measure or proportion, which a horse observes in all his motions.
CADET, among the military, is a young gentleman, who applies himself to the study of fortification and gunnery, &c. and who sometimes serves in the army, with or without pay, ’till a vacancy happens for his promotion. The proper signification of the word is, younger brother. See [Academy].