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electric sack hoist [1 record]

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Record 1 2006-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Stationary Hoisting Apparatus
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
OBS

sack hoist: [A] device for lifting sacks of grain up the mill on a chain.

Key term(s)
  • electric sack-hoist

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de levage fixes
  • Minoterie et céréales
OBS

tire-sac : Mécanisme qui, dans les moulins, monte ou descend les sacs de blé, de farine, etc.

OBS

Quand le grain arrive au moulin, il est hissé au grenier grâce au tire-sac.

OBS

Certains écrivent au singulier «un monte-sacs».

OBS

Pluriel : des tire-sacs.

OBS

Pluriel : des monte-sacs.

OBS

monte-sac (sing.); monte-sacs (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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