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HAND PUNCH [8 records]

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Record 1 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

hand punch : an item in the "Leather, Horn and Shellworking Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

poinçon à main : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement du travail de cuir, de corne et des coquillages» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Combat Sports
CONT

An overhand(or overcut or drop) punch is a semi-circular and vertical punch thrown with the rear hand. It is usually employed when the opponent is bobbing or slipping.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de combat
DEF

Coup mixte entre crochet et direct avec une orientation circulaire du bas vers le haut [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-10-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
CONT

Protect the ends of... snowplow cutting edges with curb shoes. These shoes are designed to bolt up to the last two holes on SHP(standard highway punch) snowplow blades. Choose from shoes specifically for the right hand and left hand side of the plow or from universal shoes that can be used on either side.

CONT

Curb shoes ... help reduce damage caused from the leading edge of the [snowplow] blade catching on solid objects. [They are designed] so as to guide the plow up and over the road obstacles or to keep the plow a safe distance away from the curb.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cutting and Trimming (Machine-Tooling)
CONT

A hand tool designed with a straight cylindrical punch end for backing out punches, rivets, pins and the like. It is hammerlike in appearance and fitted with a wood handle.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Découpage et taillage (Usinage)
OBS

OTAN 71-B, 177.

Spanish

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Record 5 2015-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boxing
DEF

Short straight boxing punch delivered with the leading hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Boxe
DEF

Coup de poing exécuté à grande vitesse servant à déséquilibrer l'adversaire dans le but de l'exposer à une série de coups plus efficaces.

CONT

Le jab est le coup le plus important en boxe. Il est à la fois une arme offensive et défensive. Le jab prépare, facilite l'envoie de crochet et de direct en combinaison.

OBS

Le terme «jab» est un emprunt de l'anglais. Ne pas confondre le jab du gauche avec le terme «direct du gauche» qui ne s'utilise que dans le cas d'un direct donné par un gaucher.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Boxeo
DEF

Golpe rápido y derecho.

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Record 6 2000-11-29

English

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

Plugging or Patching. The appearance of the lower grades of Birch and dry-cemented Alder plywood may be greatly improved by excising the larger and unsound knots and filling the resultant spaces with plugs of sound veneer of similar colour and texture to that of the surrounding wood... In Finland... the removal of knots and defects is usually done by die or hand punch [but] plugging machines are rapidly replacing the manual operator particularly for narrow veneers.

Key term(s)
  • patcher

French

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

Machine qui supprime les défauts de placage en retirant à l'aide d'un emporte-pièce les portions imparfaites pour les remplacer par un bouchon de forme identique prélevé sur du bois sain.

Spanish

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Record 7 1997-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Coins and Bank Notes
  • Numismatics
  • Coining
DEF

To affix by hand the last digit of a date on a matrix made from an intermediate punch, a process which used to be done on the dies.

OBS

See related term: engrave by hand.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pièces de monnaie et billets de banque
  • Numismatique
  • Monnayage
DEF

Tailler à la main le dernier chiffre d'un millésime sur une matrice faite à partir d'un poinçon intermédiaire.

Spanish

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Record 8 1994-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
CONT

The most common punches are the solid punches and they have various shaped points.... Solid punches are made to mark materials, to drive out straight or tapered pins, to mark metal for starting holes to be drilled, to align holes in different sections of metal, and to punch holes by hand in metal that is 1/32 inch up to 1/8 inch thick.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
CONT

Le poinçon le plus courant est le poinçon plein; on le trouve dans une variété de formes de pointes. [...] Le poinçon plein est conçu pour marquer les matériaux, pour chasser les goupilles cylindriques ou coniques ou pour marquer les repères dans le métal avant de percer les trous; à aligner les trous dans différentes sections de métal et à poinçonner des trous à la main dans le métal de 1/32 po à 1/8 po d'épaisseur.

Spanish

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