‖n. [ F. ] 1. A kind of wooden shoe worn by the peasantry in France, Belgium, Sweden, and some other European countries. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Mil.) A thick, circular disk of wood, to which the cartridge bag and projectile are attached, in fixed ammunition for cannon; also, a piece of soft metal attached to a projectile to take the groove of the rifling. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ F. ] 1.(a) Scamped work. (b) Malicious waste or destruction of an employer's property or injury to his interests by workmen during labor troubles.
2. any surreptitious destruction of property or obstruction of activity by persons not known to be hostile; -- in war, such actions carried out behind enemy lines by agents or local sympathisers of the hostile power. [ PJC ]
[にんじゃ, ninja](n) (See 忍術) ninja (persons in feudal Japan who used ninjutsu for the purposes of espionage, assassination, sabotage, etc.); (P)#5400[Add to Longdo]