Mil. Obs. [a. F. fourneau, lit. oven, OF. fornel:—late L. type furnellus, dim. of furnus (F. four) oven.] = FORNELLO.
1678. trans. Gaya’s Arms of War, 56. When there is a design of blowing up the Bastions of a Place besieged, by means of Mines and Fourneaus, there is first a Gallery made over the Foss or Ditch, thereby to communicate with the Bastion, to which the Miner is to be set at work.
