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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2000-05-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ovens, Furnaces and Boilers (Heating)
DEF

A Scotch, fire-tube boiler with a steel baffle at the back of the furnace to direct the products of combustion from the combustion chamber to the second pass. The baffle covers the rear end of the furnace and tubes, and is completely water cooled. The boiler gets its name from the wall of water between the baffle and the rear end of the boiler.

OBS

As opposed to a Scotch marine dry(-)back boiler.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fours et chaudières (Chauffage)
OBS

Glossaire 46.

Key term(s)
  • chaudière marine écossaise à fond humide

Spanish

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Record 2 1992-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology (General)
  • Citizenship and Immigration
  • Population Movements
DEF

a Mexican who enters the U.S. illegally (as by wading or swimming the Rio Grande).

CONT

wetbacks willing to work for nothing if a rancher would conceal them.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie (Généralités)
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
  • Mouvements de population
DEF

Dos mouillés : Immigrés clandestins mexicains qui franchissent à la nage les rivières formant frontière avec les États-Unis.

OBS

Littéralement : les "dos mouillés", du fait que les clandestins tentent parfois de franchir telle rivière à la nage, le Rio Grande en particulier, pour entrer aux États-Unis.

Spanish

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