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BALKING [2 records]

Record 1 2021-08-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Care Equipment (Farm equipment)
CONT

Self-catching headgates. These are easy to operate, will seldom choke your cattle when they are securely attached and allow the rapid movement of your animals with minimal risk of balking. The headgates also come with manual controls that you can use to increase their reliability. Unfortunately, self-catching headgates are not suitable for holding horned cattle since they can cause shoulder bruises on them if they lunge at them when cocked. They also at times allow the escape of an animal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soins aux animaux (Matériel agricole)
CONT

Il est presque impossible de soigner les bêtes sans utiliser de cornadis ou de cage de contention pour les immobiliser. Les quatre principaux types sont les suivants : cornadis à fermeture automatique, collier-attache de type ciseaux, cornadis à carcan (positif) et collier attache à ouverture coulissante.

Spanish

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Record 2 1995-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Special-Language Phraseology
  • Internet and Telematics
DEF

Acronym from Robert Heinlein's classic "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress", often invoked when balking at the poor quality of some piece of software, or at the signal-to-noise ratio of unmoderated USENET newsgroups.

CONT

(...) the purpose of this book (...) is to expound a constructive strategy of its own for coping with the environmental crisis. The fundamental principle on which this strategy is built may be expressed in a simple slogan - There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - the "TANSTAAFL principle", for short.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phraséologie des langues de spécialité
  • Internet et télématique
OBS

Cette formule lapidaire correspond bien à l'idée exprimée par la vedette anglaise.

Spanish

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