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gatensteek

English translation: mortiser


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Dutch term or phrase:gatensteek
English translation:mortiser
Entered by: Ryszard Matuszewski
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Tech/Engineering - Forestry / Wood / Timber
Dutch term or phrase: gatensteek
timmerindustrie
Ryszard Matuszewski
Poland
Local time: 05:37
morticer; mortiser
Explanation:
Een gatensteek is een gatensteekmachine
Kluwer Bouwkunde:
gatensteekmachine = morticer, mortiser
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Henk Peelen
Netherlands
Local time: 05:37
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2 +2morticer; mortiser
Henk Peelen


  

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morticer; mortiser


Explanation:
Een gatensteek is een gatensteekmachine
Kluwer Bouwkunde:
gatensteekmachine = morticer, mortiser

Henk Peelen
Netherlands
Local time: 05:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Fred ten Berge: mortiser!! (die Kluwer Bouwkunde toch - - -) // Nobody in the buildig industry and no woodworker would consider a 'gatensteek' (unless -machine is explicitely added) as anything else but a tool. Not a machine! Please, correct me if I'm wrong.
6 hrs

agree  Lawyer-Linguist: I'd go for the option with the "s" - mortiser
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