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TURKS HEAD [6 records]

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Record 1 2022-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Ferocactus hamatacanthus
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Cactaceae.

OBS

Turk's head : common name also used to refer to the species Melocactus intortus.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Ferocactus hamatacanthus
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Cactaceae.

OBS

Ferocactus hamatacanthus : Il n'y a pas de nom commun pour désigner cette espèce.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Melocactus intortus
Latin
OBS

A plant of the family Cactaceae.

OBS

Turk's head : common name also used to refer to the species Ferocactus hamatacanthus.

OBS

Turk’s cap: common name also used to refer to several other species of plants.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Melocactus intortus
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Cactaceae.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ropemaking
  • Social Organization
  • Pleasure Boating and Yachting
DEF

A turbanlike knot of small cords, made around a rope, spar, etc.

CONT

A Turk's head knot is a decorative knot with a basket weave pattern surrounding a cylinder shaped object. The name is used to describe the general family of all such knots rather than one individual knot. The most common use for the Turk's head is to mark the "king spoke" of a vessel' s wheel; when this spoke is upright the rudder is in a central position. Otherwise, the knot is used mostly for decoration, and occasionally as anti-chafing protection. The number of leads of a Turk's head is the number of crossings it makes as it goes around the circumference of the cylinder. The number of bends is the number of strands along the long axis of the cylinder. Depending on the number of leads and bends, a Turk's head may be tied using a single strand or multiple strands. Mathematically, the number of strands is the greatest common divisor of the number of leads and the number of bends; the knot may be tied with a single strand if and only if the two numbers are coprime. The knot was originally named because of its resemblance to a turban.

CONT

The Turk's head knot is commonly used as a covering knot. Members of the Boy Scouts of America have taken a liking to tying a five bight, three lead variation which they call a "woggle. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Corderie
  • Organisation sociale
  • Yachting et navigation de plaisance
CONT

Le nœud de tête de Turc est celui de la bague de foulard. Pour la description, il faut aller voir du côté des marins : Ce nœud génial peut être serré sur lui même ou sur un objet de petit diamètre et répété plusieurs fois sur lui même. Il grossit alors à chaque nouvelle épaisseur. Quand il est assez gros, on le trempe dans une bonne peinture et on le laisse sécher. Il sert alors de lest pour les lances amarres. Autrement dit, il sert à lester le bout de la ficelle (fine de préférence) que lancent les marins depuis le pont d'un bateau [...] vers le quai [...].

OBS

Ce nœud est utile dans le scoutisme pour faire des bagues de foulard.

Spanish

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Record 4 2017-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ropemaking
  • Outfitting of Ships
  • Deck Department (Naval Forces)
DEF

A turban shaped knot made by winding a smaller rope around a larger one.

CONT

The turk's head is a purely decorative piece of ropework, invariably made around an object such as a guard rail.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Corderie
  • Armement et gréement
  • Service du pont (Forces navales)
DEF

Nœud marin fait sur la tête d'un filin.

OBS

C'est parce qu'il ressemble à un turban que le nœud porte ce nom.

Spanish

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Record 5 2017-11-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
  • Performing Arts (General)
DEF

An ancient game or event of a sporting competition in which mounted knights were trying to cut as many tent’s strainers they can with their sabre while horse-ridden; nowadays, a game reproduced in a formation-type performance by mounted horsemen.

OBS

Turk's head : A knot used to shorten a tent's strainer without cutting it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
  • Arts du spectacle (Généralités)
DEF

Ancienne épreuve des compétitions sportives entre chevaliers dans laquelle chacun tentait de trancher d'un coup de sabre le plus de tendeurs de tente possible tout en demeurant à cheval; de nos jours, jeu exécuté en formation dans les spectacles de carrousel.

OBS

Durant la Première Guerre mondiale et les autres guerres au début du XXe siècle, manœuvres nocturnes contre les installations des forces adverses.

OBS

bonnet turc; tête de Turc : noms donnés au nœud servant à raccourcir un tendeur de tente sans le couper.

Spanish

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Record 6 2006-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment and Plant (Metallurgy)
CONT

Common four-sided shaped wire, such as squares, oblongs or keystone shape, are frequently produced on cold-rolling equipment known as "Turks-head" machine. This consists of four hardened-steel rolls set in planes at right angles to each other. The narrow face of the rolls, as set in the framework, is adjustable on the same plane so that the assembly of the overlapping roll edges facing each other will project the contour of the opening so formed, into the desired shape of the cross-section of the wire to be made. The process wire, of a size somewhat larger than the finished size desired, is pointed and pulled through the Turks-head, being thus rolled to shape and size, after which it is coiled on a regular wire-drawing take-up block.

CONT

The Turks Head is a metal forming machine. It may be compared to an adjustable draw die but is actually infinitely adjustable within its limiting dimensions.... The Turks Head utilizes two pair of rolls, one pair is arranged vertically and the other pair horizontally. In all types of Turks Heads, the rolls are infinitely adjustable.

OBS

turks head, turks-head : often capitalized.

OBS

Part of a drawing tool

Key term(s)
  • turkhead, turk's head, turk's-head

French

Domaine(s)
  • Équipement et matériels (Métallurgie)
CONT

La figure 35 montre un exemple de câbleuse développée [...] pour la production de câbles de Rutherford [...]. Cette machine est constituée d'un grand tambour supportant les bobines de fil et est entraînée par une chenille [...]. Les brins sont torsadés autour d'une forme cylindrique biseautée comme la lame d'un tournevis [...]. Lorsque le câble quitte la forme, il entre dans une tête de turc constituée de quatre galets disposés à des angles bien précis de manière à former un orifice trapézoïdal [...]. Les galets écrasent le câble et lui donnent la géométrie désirée.

Spanish

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