armés jusqu'aux cheveux

to the teeth ; the usual also: armé jusqu'aux dents.

115. 11. crosse; properly: "struck with a pîay bat/' from crosse, the bat; in a wider sensé it means sometimes simply "maltreated." Maupassant may hâve had in mind the latter sensé, or hâve taken crosse, as derived from crosse, the butt-end of a rifle; then the translation would be: struck with the butt-end of the rifle. Let it be understood, howeyer, that crosse is not generally used in this sensé.

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115. 20. n'en pouvant plus..» (idiom) : exhausted from the émotion and from the fatigue.