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JACKS [3 records]

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Record 1 2024-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • String Instruments
DEF

... any of a set of small upright blocks, typically of wood, one of which rests on the back of each key lever, and is fitted with a quill or plectrum which plucks the string as the block rises when the key is pressed down ...

OBS

Jacks form part of the mechanism of the virginal, spinet and harpsichord.

OBS

jack: designation usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • jacks

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
DEF

[...] chacune des lames de bois verticales à laquelle est fixée une pointe de plume ou de cuir, appelée plectre, qui vient pincer la corde correspondant à la touche sur laquelle on appuie.

OBS

Les sautereaux font partie du mécanisme du clavecin et de l'épinette, par exemple.

OBS

sautereau : désignation habituellement utilisée au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • sautereaux

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instrumentos de teclado
  • Instrumentos de cuerda
CONT

En el extremo de cada palanca de las teclas hay uno o más martinetes. Los martinetes suben y bajan a través de unas guías de madera. Cada martinete consta de un cuerpo, una lengüeta, que pivota en el martinete, un resorte para que la lengüeta vuelva a su posición de reposo, un plectro y un apagador de fieltro.

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Record 2 1994-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glass Manufacturing
DEF

A glassmaker's tool, sometimes known as pucellas, for the shaping of glass during the blowing process.

CONT

With the pucellas all the essential processes of shaping can be accomplished, such as spreading the tops of bowls, diminishing the diameter where a constriction of the body is desired, or elongating and shaping parts such as stems.

OBS

pucellas: This tool is called steel jacks today.

Key term(s)
  • steel jacks

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du verre
DEF

Outils de verrier en forme de lames de ciseaux qui servent à ouvrir la paraison, l'allonger, la raccourcir, lui donner toutes les formes.

CONT

Les fers servent à «modeler» la pièce. Ses branches en bois ou en métal, peuvent ouvrir une paraison, étirer un col, arrondir une forme, achever les bords des ouvertures, façonner les pieds [...]. Cet outil en fer, de 15 cm de long, fait d'une seule pièce, a ses branches légèrement recourbées.

Spanish

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Record 3 1983-09-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Games and Toys (General)
OBS

plural but singular in construction: a game played with a set of small objects (as stones, bones or metal pieces, and often a ball) in which the players toss, catch, and move these objects in a variety of figures requiring coordination of hand and eye.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Jeux et jouets (Généralités)

Spanish

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