Oblique, or second flank. The face of a bastion discovered from a part of the curtain, is so called.
OBLIQUE projection, is that wherein the direction of the striking body is not perpendicular to the body struck, which makes an oblique angle with the horizontal line.
OBLIQUE deployments. When the component parts of a column that is extending into line, deviate to the right or left, for the purpose of taking up an oblique position, its movements are called oblique deployments. This is thus executed, either by wheeling the line by quarter or half wheels toward the point directed in single files, sections, or platoons; so that the movement may be made perpendicular to the newly wheeled front, and the sections will form echellons; if files, they march by what is called the line of science.
OBLIQUE fire or defence, that which is under too great an angle, as is generally the defence of the second flank, which can never be so good as a defence in front. See [Oblique Firing], at the word [Firings]. See Am. Mil. Lib. plates.
Oblique percussion, is that wherein the direction of the striking body is not perpendicular to the body struck, or is not in line with its centre of gravity.
Oblique position. A position taken in an oblique direction from the original line of formation. As described in [oblique deployments].
OBLIQUE radius, a line extending from the centre to the exterior side of a polygon.
OBLIQUE STEP. This absurd and awkward contortion is deservedly exploded.
To Oblique, in a military sense, is to move forward to the right or left, in either of those directions, from a line.
Pas Oblique, Fr. Oblique step.