berlinguette
English translation: berlinguette/trundle
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| 18:51 Jan 9, 2011 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Yvonne Gallagher Ireland Local time: 20:36 | ||||||
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| 3 | waggonnette |
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| 3 | trundle |
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waggonnette Explanation: I picture it as a small four-wheeled vehicle, probably horse-drawn, designed for lightweight transport duty, small enough to pass between and under the trees of the orangerie. I don't see the need for it to resemble a fork-lift truck in any way, since you have the flèche to lift boxes on and off the waggonnette. |
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trundle Explanation: this might work trunfle n... Obsolete a small cart or truck with low wheels ... www.yourdictionary.com › Dictionary Definitions - Cached - Similar trundle n. A small wheel or roller. The motion or noise of rolling. A trundle bed. A low-wheeled cart; a dolly. www.answers.com › ... › Literature & Language › Dictionary - Cached - Similar -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2011-01-09 22:43:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- or spelled TRUNDEL here The trees might be planted against a brick wall and enclosed in winter with a plank shed covered with "cerecloth", a waxed precursor of tarpaulin.[7] "For that purpose, some keepe them in great square boxes, and lift them to and fro by iron hooks on the sides, or cause them to be rowled by trundels, or small wheeles under them, to place them in a house or close gallery" — which must have been thought handsomer than the alternative. An orangery was a building frequently found in the grounds of fashionable residences from the .... Versailles Orangerie · Strasbourg, park of the Orangerie ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery - Cached - Similar -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2011-01-09 22:44:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangery - Cached - Similar -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2011-01-09 22:46:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Trundle as a verb: and trundle in tubs of orange trees; ... around a pond, of a handsome orangery, .... on Versailles are a precious record of the state of the French gardens, seen by a master architect ... www.jstor.org/stable/1586410 -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 4 hrs (2011-01-09 23:09:45 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- note that these crates (the trees were in) had hooks on the side; these may well be what was used rather than "boom" to lift on and off and then trundle them in and out of orangery winter and spring -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 hrs (2011-01-10 14:59:07 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- yes maybe "trundel" spelling would distinguish it from modern shopping trolleys "trundlers" in NZ (really a typical case of verb-noun formation in English; if it trundles then it must be a trundler!). I came across this word doing a crossword puzzle last year, I think the clue was a "dolly" ++ cryptic and it took me a while! I was also thinking of "tumbril" but they were carts used to bring victims to the guillotine not to move orange trees! -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 hrs (2011-01-10 15:00:50 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- BYW the trundle bed actually slots in under another bed so it has that UNDER action -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 days22 hrs (2011-01-13 17:18:44 GMT) Post-grading -------------------------------------------------- thanks, glad I could be of some help. Think you did the right thing explaining the French:-) |
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