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SAW LINE [18 records]

Record 1 2023-07-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Urban Planning
  • Environment
CONT

If you are planning to hire a contractor, it helps to spray-paint the area you plan to depave first. This line can be used to saw cut the pavement to leave a clean, defined edge for the remaining pavement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Aménagement urbain
  • Environnement
DEF

Dégarnir de pavés.

Spanish

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Record 2 2020-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Tools and Equipment (Mechanics)
CONT

Circular saw operator... Job Description : 1) Operates circular saw to cut concrete or asphalt along marked line to facilitate installation and repair of utility systems and equipment... 2) Positions and lowers guide arm of saw over marked cutting line...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Outillage (Mécanique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombramiento de cargos (Generalidades)
  • Herramientas y equipo (Mecánica)
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Record 3 2012-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
OBS

If a deed be made by more parties than one, there ought to be regularly as many copies of it as there are parties, and each should be cut or indented(formerly in acute angles "instar dentium, "like the teeth of a saw, but at present in a waving line) on the top or side, to tally or correspond with the other; which deed so made, is called an indenture.(Blackstone, 15th ed., 1809, Book II, c. 20, p. 295)

CONT

In modern practice the indenture as well as the deed poll is written on a single sheet of paper, the indenture not being "indented" as anciently; the difference between the two being that the indenture is signed by both grantor and grantee, the deed poll being signed only by the grantor. (Cartwright, 1972, p. 251)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
OBS

L'équivalent ne s'abrège pas, l'adjectif «formaliste» étant essentiel à la compréhension de la notion.

OBS

acte formaliste bilatéral : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation dans le cadre du Programme national de l'administration de la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-12-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

Pit sawing operations have a long and vibrant history. Well before circular saws were used to saw logs lengthwise, they were processed by placing them over a "pit"-hence the reference to "pit saw. "The saw operates vertically up and down. Operated by two men, a man on top, known as the "Top Dog", guided the saw as it was pulled down in a cutting motion by the "Underdog. "The "Top dog" recovered the saw and the "Underdog" then pulled it down in a cutting motion again. Needless to say the "Underdog" copped a fair bit of sawdust. The top of the saw has a fixed "tiller handle" so the topdog can guide it and cut a straight line. The lower part of the saw has a "block" which is easily detachable with a wedge. The block can be taken off to allow the saw to be threaded through the saw cut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Sciage du bois
CONT

La scie de long [...] se compose d'un cadre de bois rectangulaire, formé de deux montants, deux bras, et de deux traverses, l'une haute, l'autre basse. [...] Chaque traverse porte une poignée; celle du haut, appelée chevrette, est dans le plan de la monture, alors que celle du bas, le renard, lui est perpendiculaire. La scie est maniée verticalement, par deux [...] hommes.

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

Pit sawing operations have a long and vibrant history. Well before circular saws were used to saw logs lengthwise, they were processed by placing them over a "pit"-hence the reference to "pit saw. "The saw operates vertically up and down. Operated by two men, a man on top, known as the "Top Dog", guided the saw as it was pulled down in a cutting motion by the "Underdog". The "Top dog" recovered the saw and the "Underdog" then pulled it down in a cutting motion again. Needless to say the "Underdog" copped a fair bit of sawdust. The top of the saw has a fixed "tiller handle" so the topdog can guide it and cut a straight line. The lower part of the saw has a "block" which is easily detachable with a wedge. The block can be taken off to allow the saw to be threaded through the saw cut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Sciage du bois
CONT

Le chevrier grimpait à pieds déchaux sur le tronc. Contre le froid, contre les échardes et pour conserver le plus d'adhérence, il avait enfilé des chaussettes à la semelle renforcée d'une toile de chanvre. Au sol, le renard lui faisait face, jambes écartées. Il était couvert d'un chapeau à larges bords ou tout simplement d'un vieux sac de toile, pour éviter de recevoir trop de sciure dans les yeux. La grande scie de long était formée d'un cadre en bois d'environ 1,50 m de long sur 1 m de large, munie d'une poignée aux deux transversales, et d'une lame fixée en son milieu, raidie par un tendeur ou des coins. Les dents de la lame étaient crochues, elles ne mordaient le bois qu'en descendant. C'était donc le renard qui sciait; le chevrier remontait la scie, en l'écartant légèrement de l'entaille et la guidait en fixant son regard sur le trait de scie. Il progressait en reculant. Le travail était équitablement réparti entre compagnons, chaque poste avait ses avantages et surtout ses inconvénients.

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Wood Sawing
CONT

Pit sawing operations have a long and vibrant history. Well before circular saws were used to saw logs lengthwise, they were processed by placing them over a "pit"-hence the reference to "pit saw. "The saw operates vertically up and down. Operated by two men, a man on top, known as the "Top Dog", guided the saw as it was pulled down in a cutting motion by the "Underdog". The "Top dog" recovered the saw and the "Underdog" then pulled it down in a cutting motion again. Needless to say the "Underdog" copped a fair bit of sawdust. The top of the saw has a fixed "tiller handle" so the topdog can guide it and cut a straight line. The lower part of the saw has a "block" which is easily detachable with a wedge. The block can be taken off to allow the saw to be threaded through the saw cut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Sciage du bois
CONT

Le chevrier grimpait à pieds déchaux sur le tronc. Contre le froid, contre les échardes et pour conserver le plus d'adhérence, il avait enfilé des chaussettes à la semelle renforcée d'une toile de chanvre. Au sol, le renard lui faisait face, jambes écartées. Il était couvert d'un chapeau à larges bords ou tout simplement d'un vieux sac de toile, pour éviter de recevoir trop de sciure dans les yeux. La grande scie de long était formée d'un cadre en bois d'environ 1,50 m de long sur 1 m de large, munie d'une poignée aux deux transversales, et d'une lame fixée en son milieu, raidie par un tendeur ou des coins. Les dents de la lame étaient crochues, elles ne mordaient le bois qu'en descendant. C'était donc le renard qui sciait; le chevrier remontait la scie, en l'écartant légèrement de l'entaille et la guidait en fixant son regard sur le trait de scie. Il progressait en reculant. Le travail était équitablement réparti entre compagnons, chaque poste avait ses avantages et surtout ses inconvénients.

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-01-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hand Tools
  • Wood Sawing
OBS

Pit sawing operations have a long and vibrant history. Well before circular saws were used to saw logs lengthwise, they were processed by placing them over a "pit"-hence the reference to "pit saw. "The saw operates vertically up and down. Operated by two men, a man on top, known as the "Top Dog", guided the saw as it was pulled down in a cutting motion by the "Underdog". The "Top dog" recovered the saw and the "Underdog" then pulled it down in a cutting motion again. Needless to say the "Underdog" copped a fair bit of sawdust. The top of the saw has a fixed "tiller handle" so the topdog can guide it and cut a straight line. The lower part of the saw has a "block" which is easily detachable with a wedge. The block can be taken off to allow the saw to be threaded through the saw cut.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage à main
  • Sciage du bois
CONT

La scie de long [...] se compose d'un cadre de bois rectangulaire, formé de deux montants, deux bras, et de deux traverses, l'une haute, l'autre basse. [...] Chaque traverse porte une poignée; celle du haut, appelée chevrette, est dans le plan de la monture, alors que celle du bas, le renard, lui est perpendiculaire. La scie est maniée verticalement, par deux [...] hommes.

Spanish

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Record 8 2007-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Private-Sector Bodies and Committees
  • Rail Networks
OBS

The Oshawa Railway Company was born in 1895, and effectively died on May 2, 1964 when the line was 100% dieselized by the CNR, however, power was not shut off until July 2, 1964. The OR was built, as most railways were, to provide both freight and passenger service. In the case of the OR, its operation was confined to the City of Oshawa even though they operated a number of passenger cars that would have been more suited to interurban operation. The main passenger line ran in a north-south direction on Simcoe Street, from Ross’ Corners down to Lakeview Park on the shores of Lake Ontario. When passenger service ended in 1940, several cars were re-distributed among other Canadian National Electric Railway lines where they saw many more years of use.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités du secteur privé
  • Réseaux ferroviaires

Spanish

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Record 9 2006-09-22

English

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

Reman Edgers. This type of edger is variously called a pocket edger, salvage edger or reman edger. There are many types depending on input stock and product line.... A personal preference, where a wide variety of sizes are to be made by remanufacture, is for a chipping type machine with as many pockets as needed to make the various sizes in the product line. The author recently saw one of these.... This machine had pockets to rip 2 X 8 or 2 X 4s or to remanufacture faulty pieces to 2 X 4, 1 X 4, 1 X 3, 2 X 3 or 2 X 2.

OBS

reman: Remanufacture or remanufacturing; a process of converting a common product to a more specialized or higher grade product by further manufacturing.

French

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

Déligneuse munie de têtes porte-couteaux destinée à remodeler en largeur et en épaisseur les pièces de bois prélevées sur de la machinerie spécialisée afin d'en corriger les imperfections.

Spanish

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Record 10 2005-06-14

English

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

Each carriage knee should be square with the headblock and the same distance from the saw. Align the knees by stretching a string or fine wire across the knee faces and by adjusting knees as needed until all touch the line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Sciage du bois
OBS

On écrirait mieux «charriot».

OBS

charriot : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 11 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

In sawing, a linear shadow projected on to the work piece whereby the operator can predetermine the saw line.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Parlant de scies mécaniques, la ligne lumineuse projetée sur la pièce de bois à scier, et qui permet à l'opérateur d'y définir le plan de sciage ou le trait de scie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 12 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

The line of cut that a saw should follow through the wood.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

Plan dans lequel la lame de scie doit se mouvoir à travers le bois.

OBS

L'anglais dit littéralement ligne de sciage, qui rappelle l'expression française trait de scie, et non pas plan de sciage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 13 2002-01-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Wood Sawing
DEF

A wavy cut(i. e. deviating from the saw line), a sign of faulty sawing-generally band-sawing.

OBS

Common causes are poor fitting, insufficient strain, insufficient machine power.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciage du bois
DEF

[...] sciage ondulé qui s'écarte de façon désordonnée du plan de sciage initial; le plus souvent il s'agit de sciage avec une scie à ruban.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 14 1999-10-13

English

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

A circular saw or a planer cutterblock suspended in front of the head saw and cutting a wide kerf in the latter's saw line, in order to detect and/or remove foreign matter that might injure the head saw.

French

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

Scie circulaire comportant une lame (ou un couteau rotatif), suspendue en avant de la scie de tête pour couper un large trait de scie dans le plan de sciage de cette dernière, et permettre de détecter ou d'ôter des matériaux étrangers qui pourraient détériorer la scie principale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones y equipo (Industria maderera)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 15 1999-07-09

English

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

A toothed, metal plate set at the base of a chain-saw bar, used to pivot and steady the latter and so help control the saw line.

French

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

Plaque métallique en forme de dent placée à la base du guide-chaîne d'une scie à moteur, destinée à faciliter son maniement en l'appuyant contre le bois à scier.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Instalaciones y equipo (Industria maderera)
  • Aserradura de la madera
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Record 16 1998-11-28

English

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

The mechanism on a log carriage which serves to advance the knees towards, or withdraw them from, the saw line, so regulating the thickness of the piece being cut.

French

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

Mécanisme qui, sur un chariot ou un autre système de sciage ou d'équarrissage, permet d'ajuster la position de la pièce par rapport au plan de sciage ou vice versa et ainsi de régler l'épaisseur de coupe.

Spanish

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Record 17 1995-04-24

English

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

Board separating assembly consists of several board separator-support blocks according to the assembly drawing. Check that the separator tabs of the blocks are in line with the saw blade frame.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations et équipement (Industr. du bois)
  • Sciage du bois
OBS

Selon M. André Moffet, de la compagnie Rexfor à Sainte-Foy, il s'agit de blocs que l'on retrouve à la sortie de la scie à lames circulaires multiples sur une équarrisseuse-débiteuse. Ils ont pour but d'empêcher que les pièces de bois ne se touchent à la sortie de la scie.

Spanish

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Record 18 1987-11-26

English

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

In friction cutting, an intense heat is generated which softens the material. The blade teeth do not actually cut but, rather, scoop out the soft material.... A momentary contact of the fast-moving saw tooth against the material being cut produces enough friction to heat the material to its softening point. This heating is largely confined to a very small area of contact immediately ahead of the saw blade.... As the material is fed into the saw, this narrow line of softened material is removed by the rapid motion of the blade.

French

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

Procédé de découpage de matériaux métalliques et minéraux dans lequel la très grande vitesse de déplacement de l'outil, appelé "ruban de sciage", provoque la fusion du matériau.

Spanish

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