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WIRE SLING [6 records]

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Record 1 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

Chocks are fitted with either a wire cable loop or a rope sling for attaching a carabiner and the climbing rope... I may trust one well-placed rope-slung chock where I would insist on two wired chocks.

CONT

... nuts that are too small to be threaded with a sling of adequate size are wired. Most climbers on regular routes carry a few wired nuts, but rely primarily on those threaded with webbing or rope.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
CONT

[Le coinceur, une] pièce métallique de forme et de grosseur diverses, reliée à une cordelette ou à un câble se place provisoirement dans une fissure et conforte l'assurance de la progression du grimpeur. [...] Lorsque la taille du coinceur ne suffit pas au passage d'une cordelette de 7 mm, le grimpeur se munit de coinceurs câblés [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
CONT

The majority of large wedging chocks are slung with wire. However, with the largest wedges manufacturers usually offer you choice : you can buy them wired or loose. Loose means that you buy the head alone, then you must buy some cord to sling the chock.

CONT

All [stoppers] are obtainable fitted with swaged, galvanized steel cable, while sizes 10 through 13 are available loose, with holes drilled ready to accept 5.5 mm Kevlar cord.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
OBS

Pour équiper ces coinceurs [sans câble], il est conseillé d'utiliser des cordelettes Kevlar ou Dyneema [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mobile Hoisting Apparatus
CONT

The following equipment is available for the movement of external loads: a. 4-legged sling (1/4 ton vehicle or trailer).

OBS

sling : a group of three or four wire legs spliced to a ring, fitted with shackles at their outer ends, and used for hoisting a man-of-war's boats with a crane.

Key term(s)
  • four-leg sling
  • four-legged sling
  • 4 legged sling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appareils de levage mobiles
Key term(s)
  • élingue 4 brins

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mountain Sports
DEF

A chock shaped like a wedge that jams securely in a crack.

CONT

There are no moving parts on a wedging chock; it consists only of a metal wedge-shaped head and a wire or cord sling.

OBS

Manufacturers give these chocks many names, including: Rocks, Stones, Stoppers, Nuts, and Offsets, among others.

OBS

... [stopper] has become a generic word describing any wedge-shaped nut.

OBS

Using "stopper" would risk ambiguity with the brand-name "Stopper".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de montagne
DEF

Morceau de métal de forme trapézoïdale que l'on coince dans des failles, trous ... et auquel on accroche une dégaine.

CONT

Les [coinceurs trapézoïdaux...] sont particulièrement adaptés aux [fissures de] petites tailles (jusqu'à 3 mm).

CONT

Coinceurs. Il en existe deux types principaux : les trapézoïdaux et les «excentriques».

CONT

[La photo montre] un choix de coinceurs trapézoïdaux [...] montés sur corde.

OBS

Il se peut que «stoppeur» se confonde avec le nom de marque d'un modèle spécifique, le «Stopper» de Chouinard.

OBS

«Coinceur simple» peut être ambigu, étant employé parfois pour indiquer un coinceur qui fonctionne par simple blocage, et parfois pour indiquer un coinceur dont la forme lui permet de fonctionner par verrouillage aussi.

Spanish

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Record 5 2002-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Helicopters (Military)
DEF

A length of webbing or wire rope between the helicopter and cargo sling.

OBS

suspension strap: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Hélicoptères (Militaire)
DEF

Agrès parfois nécessaire entre l'hélicoptère et l'élingue de suspension.

OBS

raccord d'élingue : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Helicópteros (Militar)
DEF

Correa o cable de suspensión entre el helicóptero y el gancho de la carga.

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Record 6 1998-12-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Mechanics)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A U-shaped steel rod with threaded ends and a bar with nuts, provided to clamp over two or more cylindrical pieces to bind them together, as the overlapped ends of two wire ropes.

CONT

A wire-line clamp is used to hold the end of a wire rope against the main rope and so form a loop or sling...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Mécanique)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Pièce en U boulonnée servant à assembler deux brins de câble.

Spanish

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