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DRESSEUR MEULE [2 records]

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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2017-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tools and Equipment (Mechanics)
  • Grinding (Machine-Tooling)
DEF

A tool for cleaning, resharpening, and restoring the mechanical accuracy of the cutting faces of grinding wheels.

OBS

Dressing is the operation of cleaning or restoring the sharpness of the wheel face that has become dulled or loaded with material being ground.

OBS

There are several types of wheel dressers: diamond-point, rotary-type, star-type, etc.

OBS

wheel dresser: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Mécanique)
  • Meulage (Usinage)
DEF

Outil servant au nettoyage, au réaffûtage et à la remise en état du mécanisme de précision des surfaces tranchantes d’une meule.

OBS

dresse-meule : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 1983-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundry Practice
OBS

[The haulers] piled more of [the wood] in the center of the ring and then stacked the billets in a circle just inside the dust bank. The total was as much as fifty cords, but before it was all in, the collier and his helper had made a good start at "setting the pit".

OBS

The colliers were concerned with the complete setup and operation of the charcoaling pit, and may or may not have had special assistants for stacking the billets, as is the case in the French context.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fonderie
OBS

Le dresseur utilisant la brouette apporte les billots sur les aires de dressage. Puis il dispose d’abord les plus grosses bûches contre la cheminée d’allumage(...). Ensuite il place contre ces premières bûches les autres jusqu'à ce qu'il atteigne la ligne circulaire de la base de la future meule.

Spanish

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