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GREEN WOOD [23 records]

Record 1 2024-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Implements and Gardening Tools
  • Maple Syrup Production
  • Maple-Sugar Industry
  • Anthropology
CONT

The sap trough was made by cutting a small green maple log or stick of wood into lengths two feet long and splitting them through the middle, then digging out the wood on the split side with an axe and adze. These troughs were set under the drip of the spiles to catch the [maple sap].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage agricole et horticole
  • Acériculture
  • Industrie de l'érable
  • Anthropologie
CONT

Au pied de l'arbre, une auge creusée à même une pièce de bois reçoit la sève [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2023-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seafood and Freshwater Food (Food Industries)
  • Commercial Fishing
DEF

... fish which has recently been salted and is still moist.

CONT

The processes used for salting cod are generally the same in most areas and time periods, with some local variations. The colonial New England cod fishery is typical. Cod was either "dry cured" or "green cured. "For a dry cure, fish were usually cleaned, split, salted, and then stored aboard ship after each haul so they would not deteriorate at sea. Once the the ship returned to shore, the fish would be repacked, resalted, and eventually sun dried into tough, durable slabs that could be stacked and stored like wood. Dry curing was used when fishers traveled long distances to fishing grounds. In contrast, green curing, in which the fish were cleaned, salted, and dried on land rather than at sea, was used on shorter trips to nearby fishing grounds.... Because it was a faster process, green curing did not wring as much water out of the fish as dry curing. Green-cured fish therefore was considered to be of lower quality and did not last as long.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits de mer et d'eau douce (Industr. alim.)
  • Pêche commerciale

Spanish

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Record 3 2022-09-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
CONT

Freekeh is young wheat that is harvested approximately one month and a half before it matures, between April and May, while the wheat is still green and milky... When harvested, freekeh is tied into piles and left to dry in the sun for 3-4 hours. The piles are then roasted over an open wood or charcoal fire, on the ground, for 10-15 minutes and then stored in the shade for a couple of days.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Molinería y cereales
CONT

El freekeh se cosecha cuando recién empieza la primavera, lo que resulta muy favorable ya que para esa época las reservas de grano cosechadas anteriormente regularmente se agotan durante el invierno.

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Record 4 2017-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treatment of Wood
DEF

Any treatment of wood retarding or inhibiting(a) shrinkage from the green condition(anti-shrinkage treatment), e. g. by treating the wood with chemicals, or(b) movement while in service(anti-movement treatment).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des bois
DEF

Traitement du bois qui permet de retarder ou d'inhiber : (1) son retrait total à partir de l'état saturé (traitement anti-rétractif) par ex. en y appliquant des produits chimiques; (2) le travail (retrait ou gonflement) quand il est mis en œuvre.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la madera
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Record 5 2015-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treatment of Wood
DEF

A product that is applied on the ends of logs to eliminate checking.

OBS

End grain sealers overview : If you’re working with green wood, you’re probably already using some type of sealer to help prevent checking. The most popular sealers are wax based and offer excellent protection from rapid moisture loss when applied correctly.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des bois
DEF

Produit que l'on applique sur les extrémités des billes de bois afin de neutraliser l'apparition de fentes.

Key term(s)
  • produit anti-fentes

Spanish

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Record 6 2014-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Natural Construction Materials
CONT

The moisture content of wood is normally expressed as a percentage, and is calculated as : the difference between the weight of a sample of wet(green) wood and the weight of the same sample after oven drying(to remove all moisture), divided by the oven-dry weight, all multiplied by 100.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de construction naturels
DEF

Pourcentage de la masse d'eau présente dans le bois, divisée par la masse de matières sèches.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales de construcción naturales
DEF

Cantidad de humedad en la madera, generalmente expresada en porcentaje del peso de la madera seca.

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Record 7 2013-07-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Products
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

green chips :Wood chips made of fresh logging and thinning by-products, including branches and tops.

OBS

green chip: term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • green chips

French

Domaine(s)
  • Produits du bois
  • Énergie de la biomasse
DEF

copeaux verts : Copeaux de bois obtenus à partir de sous-produits d'exploitation forestière et d'éclaircies frais, y compris des branches et des houppiers.

OBS

copeau vert : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • copeaux verts

Spanish

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Record 8 2013-06-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Drying
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

Density based on the oven-dry weight and green volume of wood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Séchage du bois
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Densité estimée en calculant le poids sec et le volume frais d'un échantillon de bois.

Spanish

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Record 9 2008-05-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biomass Energy
CONT

... process of pyrolysis of vegetable waste(agricultural residues, wild-grown biomass), which transforms it into green charcoal. That domestic fuel performs the same as charcoal made from wood, but at half the cost.

Key term(s)
  • bio coal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le charbon vert est du charbon qui est produit sans bois, à partir de tout déchet végétal. En effet, il existe de nombreux rejets et résidus qui ne sont ni consommés ni utilisés: pailles diverses, restes de cultures tels les tiges de coton, de mil, de roseau, etc. Le produit se présente sous forme de briquettes faciles à utiliser et sans dégagement de méthane.

CONT

Le charbon de biomasse est pratiquement 2 fois moins cher que le charbon de bois.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Energía de la biomasa
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Record 10 2007-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Biomass Energy
DEF

A type of biomass combustion burner in which a pile of fuel burns on the grates.

OBS

Primary combustion air comes from above the grates, not below.

CONT

The boilers are fed wood fuel from the main fuel bin located adjacent to the boiler house. The boilers are the "pile burner" type, which burn wood in a large pile on the floor of a refractory lined furnace box. Combustion efficiency with this type of boiler is generally low but pile burners are simple and therefore relatively inexpensive. Low combustion efficiency also means that emissions such as particulates and carbon monoxide are relatively high. One notable advantage to these systems is that high moisture content fuels can be burned as well as "dirty" fuels containing debris.

CONT

Pile burner : Boilers incorporating a pile burning design find applications where the anticipated wood fuel has a high(up to 65%) relative moisture content, as is found in whole green tree chips, bark, and green mill residue. Grates serve to support the fuel, and underfire air flowing up through the grates provides oxygen for combustion, cools the grates, promotes turbulence in the fuel bed, and dries the fuel. The most common form of pile burning is the Dutch oven, which was used almost exclusively during the early part of the century(Guinn and Turner 1990).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Énergie de la biomasse
CONT

Le combustible de bois sec est mélangé à de la sciure de bois vert afin de produire un mélange de combustible qui convienne aux brûleurs de biomasse [...]

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-05-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Facilities and Equipment (Wood Industries)
  • Plywood
DEF

A small veneer lathe designed to handle shorter peeler block lengths.

CONT

The facility stores, debarks, and cuts logs into blocks in the log yard. Three lathes peel the blocks to produce green veneer, with peeler cores and wood chips as by-products. One lathe, the four foot core lathe, is driven by steam.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Contreplaqués
DEF

Dérouleuse de dimensions réduites conçue pour le déroulage des billes courtes.

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Drying
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
DEF

Density based on the weight and volume of wood when green.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Séchage du bois
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Densité du bois vert et saturé exprimée en poids et en volume.

Spanish

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Record 13 2002-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
CONT

Wood is composed of dead and living plant cells.... The green leaves consisting of living cells contain some proteins, considerable water and less cellulosic cell wall materials. The woody tissues are essentially composed of dead cells. The main components of the cell walls are cellulose microfibrils embedded in a matrix of hemicellulose and lignin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
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Record 14 2001-12-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Xylology (The Study of Wood)
DEF

Density base on oven-dry weight and the volume when tested-commonly when the wood is green or at 50 or 12% moisture content but also(e. g. Canada) when air-dry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Xylologie (Étude des bois)
DEF

Densité calculée d'après le poids anhydre et le volume de l'échantillon de bois au moment où il est éprouvé, c.-à-d., dans la pratique, lorsque le bois est vert, ou lorsqu'il contient 50 ou 12 % d'humidité.

OBS

Au Canada, on appelle densité nominale la densité calculée d'après le poids anhydre et le volume sec à l'air.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Xilología (Estudio de la madera)
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Record 15 2000-12-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Wood
  • Shipbuilding
DEF

the wood of lignum vitae.

OBS

Lignum vitae: any of several trees of the genus Guaiacum.

OBS

The tree is the source of a very hard, heavy wood, brownish green in colour. It is used to make pulleys, shafts, axles....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de bois
  • Constructions navales
CONT

Le bois du commerce connu sous le nom de "gaïac" est produit par les trois espèces Guajacum officinalis, Guajacum sanctum, Guajacum guatemalense. [...] Ce bois est très dur et très lourd, à grain très fin, riche en saponines. On l'emploie en ébénisterie; on en fait des poulies, des galets, des coussinets [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de madera
  • Construcción naval
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Record 16 1999-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treatment of Wood
DEF

A treatment in which a preservative of the waterborne-type is applied to green timber in a paste or concentrated solution, and gradually moves into the wet wood under the force of the concentration gradient.

OBS

Bore-hole treatment and gun injection are modifications ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des bois
DEF

Traitement suivant lequel un produit de préservation hydrosoluble appliqué à du bois vert sous forme d'une pâte, ou d'une solution concentrée, y pénètre progressivement sous l'effet du gradient de concentration.

OBS

Les traitements de bois en service par forage de canaux d'injection sont aussi des applications de la pénétration par diffusion.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tratamiento de la madera
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Record 17 1998-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Wood
  • Barrel and Cask Making
DEF

A straight slender length of green sapling wood usually hickory or white oak that was formerly used as stock for barrel hoops.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sortes de bois
  • Tonnellerie
DEF

Branche de saule ou de châtaignier, qui, fendue en deux, sert à la fabrication des cercles de tonneaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Tipos de madera
  • Tonelería
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Record 18 1998-11-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Treatment of Wood
DEF

Dipping or spraying of green sawn timber with solutions of fungicides, to prevent discolo(u) ration of the wood by staining fungi.

OBS

The fungicides most commonly used are Na salts of chlorinated phenols but organic Hg compounds may also be incorporated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement des bois
DEF

Traitement des bois sciés visant à prévenir l'apparition de taches colorées de nature fongique grâce à un trempage dans des produits antifongiques ou en les en aspergeant.

Spanish

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Record 19 1997-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biomass Energy
  • Forestry Operations
OBS

green : A loose term applied... to... wood still containing most of the moisture present at the time of felling, i. e. still above fiber-saturation point.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Énergie de la biomasse
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Écorce fraîche, caractérisée par son plein volume en eau.

CONT

Un des buts fondamentaux de l'étude était la détermination des quantités de résidus générés par la transformation d'un volume initial donné d'arbres [...] Les résultats [...] montrent que la transformation génère 393, 3 kg de copeaux frais [...] et enfin 74, 3 kg d'écorce verte ou 38, 6 d'écorce anhydre [...]

Spanish

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Record 20 1990-10-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Wood Sawing
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

a type of saw having a bow-like tubular frame and a sharp blade with many cutting teeth, especially efficient in cutting pulpwood and any soft, green wood.

OBS

It has been suggested that this term may have received its name because the original blades were of Swedish steel. It is also possible that the name was applied derisively because the saw was associated with Swedish lumbermen ....

OBS

The term "Swedish violin" is a slang term considered as "a variant of Swedish fiddle, here applied to the one-man Swede saw" (A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, W.J. Gage Limited, 1967, p. 769).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Sciage du bois
  • Exploitation forestière

Spanish

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Record 21 1985-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Refining of Metals
DEF

A technique used in the refining of copper that consists of the thrusting of green wood poles into the molten metal in order to generate the reducing gases that react with the oxides in the metal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Affinage des métaux
DEF

introduction de perches de bois vert ou de bois sec dans le bain en fusion, au cours de l'affinage du cuivre, du zinc ou de l'étain bruts.

CONT

Le cuivre pur restant en fin d'opération est suroxydé. Pour le réduire et ramener la teneur en oxygène à 0,04 p. 100, teneur normale du cuivre électrolytique, on pratique le perchage. Cette opération consiste à plonger des troncs d'arbres dans le bain de métal liquide. La combustion brutale du bois dégage des gaz réducteurs. Le cuivre est ensuite coulé sous forme d'anodes, plaques à «oreilles» destinées à être traitées électrolytiquement.

Spanish

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Record 22 1982-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Surface Coating (Metals)
  • Construction Finishing
  • Wood Finishing
OBS

(...) for quick repainting of outboard motors, metal or wood surfaces. In "outboard colors" Holiday Bronze, Mercury Green, Johnson Green, Johnson White and Evinrude Blue... also Clear lacquer for protective coatings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Recouvrement des métaux
  • Finitions (Construction)
  • Finition du bois
OBS

(...) pour repeindre rapidement tout moteur hors bord, tout métal ou bois. Couleurs hors-bord: bronze Holiday, vert Mercury, vert Johnson, blanc Johnson et bleu Evinrude, laque incolore servant de couche protectrice.

Spanish

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Record 23 1981-06-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Crop Conservation and Storage
  • Crop Storage Facilities
DEF

A large, round bin or receptacle made of narrow strips of wood or concrete staves, placed edge to edge and held together with steel bands, in which chopped green forage is stored.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conservation des récoltes
  • Entreposage des récoltes

Spanish

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