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BREECHING [4 records]

Record 1 2004-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horse Husbandry
  • Horse Racing and Equestrian Sports
CONT

Limbers had no brakes and in order to stop them the wheeler horses had to push backwards. To achieve this both wheel horses carried [a] breeching harness. ... To connect the horse to the shafts of the limber, the off horse breeching had a five-foot-long breeching strap ... stitched to each end.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Élevage des chevaux
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

[...] ensemble qui permet au cheval de reculer et retenir ce à quoi il est attelé lors des arrêts et des descentes.

OBS

Il comprend dans ce sens l'avaloire, la barre de fesses, les courroies et les crampons de reculement.

Spanish

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Record 2 2004-09-30

English

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

The strap of a harness that passes behind a draft animal's haunches.

CONT

The breeching for the off horse ... was a four-inch wide, leather strap passing around the rear of the horse, about a foot below the root of the tail and supported, on each side, by two buckling pieces; one for the hip strap ... and one for the loin strap ...

OBS

Horse racing term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Courses hippiques et sports équestres
DEF

Courroie autour de l'arrière-train du cheval qui se termine par des chaînes à fixer aux brancards, [et qui] permet de reculer.

OBS

Terme de courses de chevaux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Carreras de caballos y deportes ecuestres
DEF

Correa ancha que rodea las ancas de las caballerías y ayuda a frenar el carro o lo hace retroceder.

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Record 3 2003-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
  • Burners and Steamfitting
  • Chimneys (Building Elements)
DEF

A flue pipe or chamber for receiving flue gases from 1 or more flue connections and for discharging these gases through a single flue connection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
  • Fumisterie et brûleurs
  • Cheminées (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

tuyau de raccordement ou chambre qui reçoit les gaz de combustion en provenance d'un ou de plusieurs conduits de fumée et les achemine dans un conduit unique.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Hornos y calderas (Calefacción)
  • Artículos de fumistería y quemadores
  • Chimeneas (Elementos de edificios)
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Record 4 2002-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Wool Industry
DEF

Wool from the lower thighs or hind quarters of the sheep, usually the coarsest type found in the fleece. It has considerable length but is very irregular and of little value. This wool is used in cheap suitings and coatings, windbreakers, ski cloth, mackinac material and carpet.

DEF

Breeching: Coarse clotted wool on the buttocks of sheep.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Industrie lainière
DEF

Couaille : Laine de seconde qualité coupée près de la queue.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Industrias textiles
  • Industria lanera
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