ETAPES

ETAPE

É`tape", n. [F. Cf. Staple a mart.]

1.

Definition: A public storehouse.

2. Supplies issued to troops on the march; hence (Mil.),

Definition: the place where troops on the march halt over night; also, by extension, the distance marched during a day.

3. In Russia, a prison or stockade for the confinement of prisoners in transit.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition