French: Banc de loupEnglish translation: shaving horse 
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Forestry / Wood / Timber | | French term or phrase: Banc de loup | Apparently, this is an instrument used to hold the piece of wood/object on which you are working. Used to cut wooden stakes in my text.
Text talking about life on the farm in the early 20th century
"Taillé, [le châtaignier] fournit les piquets pour les clôtures et pour la vigne. Regardez-les, à côté du billot, prêts à être écorcé sur le « banc de loup » et appointés sur le billot avec le coutre. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseDebbie Tacium Ladry: 1:38pm Apr 21, 2006: why is this classified 'non-pro'? -
Fiona McBrearty: 1:45pm Apr 21, 2006: This option seems to be activated by default now when you ask a question, although it never was before (just tested it again). Sorry! It is very definitely a pro question but don't know how to change it's status...
Debbie Tacium Ladry: 1:48pm Apr 21, 2006: Ah, that explains it ! :-) -
Fiona McBrearty: 4:09pm Apr 21, 2006: Description (in French) - Found description of "banc de loup" here
http://andre.j.balout.free.fr/charente(16)_pdf/roussines01.pdf
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| | a shaving horse | Explanation:
I rarely use the highest level of confidence but taken in the context of the explanation in the French text, this cannot be anything else: there is even a picture on the website.
"Banc de loup": petit banc ayant une sorte de pedale en bois qui, poussée au pied, permet à la étête de loup" de saisir le feuillard tout en laissant à l'ouvrier les mains libres
The next step involved placing a single board with one end positioned in the jaw of a shaving (or shingle) horse to be shaped.
The shaving horse was a wooden bench specially designed to function as a vice, work-bench and seat, all in one. The illustrations that follow show a shaving horse with the 'jaw' closed and then open and ready to accept a board.
The cooper would sit on the horizontal plank ‘seat’ of the shaving horse, facing the ‘jaw’. He would place one of his feet onto the ‘foot’ of the shaving horse and, by extending his leg straight, push the foot forward. The harder he pushed on the foot, the more tightly the jaw clamped down.
The piece of wood was held as tight in the shaving horse as it might have been in a bench vice, but it had some advantages over a bench vice. |
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Josephine79
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Explanation:
Sounds like a vice but it's not the right word in French. Perhaps it's a debarking machine
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Note added at 1 hr (2006-04-21 14:24:43 GMT)
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the loup part makes it sound like it has teeth or at least something sharp (blades)
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Note added at 3 hrs (2006-04-21 16:24:20 GMT)
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From the description you found it would appear to be a sort of jaws (hence the loup) or gripping device in which the pole is clamped
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| a shaving horse
Explanation:
I rarely use the highest level of confidence but taken in the context of the explanation in the French text, this cannot be anything else: there is even a picture on the website.
"Banc de loup": petit banc ayant une sorte de pedale en bois qui, poussée au pied, permet à la étête de loup" de saisir le feuillard tout en laissant à l'ouvrier les mains libres
The next step involved placing a single board with one end positioned in the jaw of a shaving (or shingle) horse to be shaped.
The shaving horse was a wooden bench specially designed to function as a vice, work-bench and seat, all in one. The illustrations that follow show a shaving horse with the 'jaw' closed and then open and ready to accept a board.
The cooper would sit on the horizontal plank ‘seat’ of the shaving horse, facing the ‘jaw’. He would place one of his feet onto the ‘foot’ of the shaving horse and, by extending his leg straight, push the foot forward. The harder he pushed on the foot, the more tightly the jaw clamped down.
The piece of wood was held as tight in the shaving horse as it might have been in a bench vice, but it had some advantages over a bench vice.
Reference: http://www.motherbedford.com/Cooper.htm
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