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GRATTER [3 records]

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Record 1 2024-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
CONT

His driver's license had been suspended for writing a bad check to pay a $35 traffic fine, and McDuffie tried to outrace Dade County's Metro police.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-09-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Scientific Research Facilities
  • Chemistry
OBS

Term(s) taken from a Canadian laboratory-equipment company's catalogue.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de recherche scientifique
  • Chimie
OBS

Terme(s) tiré(s) du catalogue d'une compagnie canadienne d'équipement de laboratoire.

Spanish

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Record 3 1997-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textile Industries
  • Textiles: Preparation and Processing
DEF

To raise fibres on the face of a fabric to give a pilelike surface.

CONT

Teasel, teazle: To raise a smooth nap on (cloth) with or as with teasels ... The object is to raise up the loose fibres of the woollen yarn into a nap by scratching it either with thistle-heads called teasels ... Teaseling-machine in which woolen cloth is teaseled to raise a nap upon it.

CONT

Raise: To bring up (the nap of cloth) by carding with teazles, etc.; to make a nap on (cloth) ... Nap: To furnish with a nap; to raise a nap on (cloth) ... Gig: To raise the nap of (cloth). Gig wheel, a mill in which the nap of woollen cloth is raised by the application of teasles. Gigging-machine, a machine for dressing woolen cloth by subjecting it to the action of teasels, whose fine hooks draw the loose fibres to the surface.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industries du textile
  • Apprêt et traitements divers (Textiles)
DEF

Lainer une étoffe. Lui donner un aspect velouté, duveteux, en faisant ressortir le poil à la surface du tissu par grattage.

DEF

Lainage : Action de lainer une étoffe. Le lainage consiste à gratter le tissu avec des chardons [naturels] ou avec des appareils munis d'aiguilles [pointes métalliques], afin de faire ressortir les poils.

OBS

Le verbe «molletonner» (qui veut dire lainer des étoffes) et son substantif «molletonnage» sont des néologismes employés dans le périodique français L'Industrie textile

Spanish

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