a feast or entertainment, where people regale themselves with pleasant foods, or fruits. It signifies also a little bank, or raised way.

in the menage, that small part of the branch of a bridle that is under the eye, which being rounded like a small rod, gathers and joins the extremities of the bit to the branch, and that in such a manner, that the banquet is not seen, but covered by the cope, or that part of the bit that is next the branch.

BANQUET-line, an imaginary line drawn, in making a bit, along the banquet, and prolonged up or down, to adjust the designed force or weakness of the branch, in order to make it stiff or easy.

or Banquette, in fortification, a little foot-bank, or elevation of earth, forming a path, which runs along the inside of a parapet, upon which the musqueteers get up, in order to discover the counterscarp, or to fire on the enemy in the moat, or in the covert-way.