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What (who) is à portée de main - definition

TRUCK-MOUNTED ARTILLERY
Portee
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Main Street (Kansas City, Missouri)         
MAJOR NORTH/SOUTH MAIN STREET THAT RUNS IN KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI
Main Street (Kansas City)
Main Street or Main is a major north/south main street that runs in Kansas City, Missouri. At its northern terminus, it begins at the Missouri River as a dead end street, with heavier traffic supported as a main street south of 6th Street south to Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard and Brookside Boulevard.
William Hogarth Main         
AMERICAN CAVE DIVING PIONEER
William Main; Bill Main
William "Bill" Hogarth Main is a cave diving pioneer who is best known as a developer in the 1980s, and the namesake of, the "Hogarthian gear configuration" that is a component of the "Doing It Right" (DIR) holistic approach to scuba diving. According to Jarrod Jablonski, the Hogarthian style "has many minor variations, yet its focus asserts a policy of minimalism.
coup-de-main         
SWIFT ATTACK THAT RELIES ON SPEED AND SURPRISE
Coup de Main; Coup-de-main
n.
[Fr.] Sudden attack, unexpected enterprise or assault.

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Portée (military)

Portée describes the practice of carrying an artillery piece on a truck which can be fired from the vehicle or quickly dismounted and fired from the ground. The term is most often used to describe anti-tank equipments used by the British, Commonwealth and imperial forces in the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Modern terms for mounting weapons on vehicles are technical or gun truck.