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moulin à café

English translation: coffee grinder

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French term or phrase:moulin à café
English translation:coffee grinder
Entered by: Kimberly De Haan

10:29 Nov 19, 2010
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Ships, Sailing, Maritime
French term or phrase: moulin à café
A sailing video game. This term comes up several times, and I can visualise it from sailing videos I've seen, of people frantically turning a handle on the deck. But what is it called...?

« Le **moulin à café** sert à actionner l’un des 4 winchs selon les besoins, grâce à un système complexe d’embrayage. »

« Pas oublier d’inverser la position des dérives, car le faire après le virement, l’eau met beaucoup de pression, et c’est l’enfer à manœuvrer ces engins là. Tu vas ouvrir le taquet de la dérive bâbord pour la faire descendre puis remonter la dérive tribord à l’aide du **moulin à café**. »

Thanks for your help
Kimberly De Haan
Canada
Local time: 17:23
coffee grinder
Explanation:
strange but true

'Coffee grinder' driven prop? [Archive] - Yachting and Boating ...
13 posts - 10 authors - Last post: 13 Jan 2009
Ok, apologies, I'm bored... but looking at the Vendee site and the power gained through a coffee grinder winch got me thinking. ...
www.ybw.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-186574.html
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Graham macLachlan
Local time: 22:23
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Yes, it does look like the handle of an old-fashioned coffee grinder.
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4 +3coffee grinder
Graham macLachlan
4Crank
Louis Cyril P


  

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coffee grinder


Explanation:
strange but true

'Coffee grinder' driven prop? [Archive] - Yachting and Boating ...
13 posts - 10 authors - Last post: 13 Jan 2009
Ok, apologies, I'm bored... but looking at the Vendee site and the power gained through a coffee grinder winch got me thinking. ...
www.ybw.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-186574.html

Graham macLachlan
Local time: 22:23
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 352
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Yes, it does look like the handle of an old-fashioned coffee grinder.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jean-Louis S.: http://tinyurl.com/2faqqb3
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agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: standard of big boats... particularly when sponsors are financing them! ;-) Crew who operate them on race boats are known as "grinders". Curious? http://www.sodebo-voile.com/carnet-medias/videos.html (cf "Le finish..." of 10/11) and you'll see why the nam
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  -> thanks Nikki

agree  Miranda Joubioux (X)
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Crank


Explanation:
Re: Wikipedia


A crank is an arm attached at right angles to a rotating shaft by which reciprocating motion is imparted to or received from the shaft. It is used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. The arm may be a bent portion of the shaft, or a separate arm attached to it. Attached to the end of the crank by a pivot is a rod, usually called a connecting rod. The end of the rod attached to the crank moves in a circular motion, while the other end is usually constrained to move in a linear sliding motion, in and out.


Louis Cyril P
Local time: 01:23
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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