vachette
English
Etymology
French vachette
Noun
vachette (plural vachettes)
- (veterinary surgery) A piece of strong steel wire with the ends curved and pointed, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.
Anagrams
- chavette
French
Etymology
From vache + -ette.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /va.ʃɛt/
Audio (file)
Noun
vachette f (plural vachettes)
- young cow, calf
- calfskin
- (historical) type of dice game
Further reading
- “vachette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.