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Reisigfaschinen

English translation: bundled brushwood


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German term or phrase:Reisigfaschinen
English translation:bundled brushwood
Entered by: Kim Metzger
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13:46 Nov 27, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture / landscape elements
German term or phrase: Reisigfaschinen
It is a word in a list of things done to protect the soil erosion and along with making a sheet pile wall for fortification in the forest. This is all I have understood about it.
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Local time: 07:22
bundled brushwood
Explanation:
Reisig is brushwood or faggot wood
Faschine is bundled brushwood
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 20:52
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3 +3bundled brushwood
Kim Metzger


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
bundled brushwood


Explanation:
Reisig is brushwood or faggot wood
Faschine is bundled brushwood


    Langenscheidts Fachwrterbuch Landwirtschaft, Forstwirtschaft, Gartenbau
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 20:52
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 143

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cécile Kellermayr
2 mins

agree  Jo Mayr: vom Fach!
7 mins

agree  Alec Evans: sounds fine to me. Just as an interesting aside, I wonder if "faschine" has the same root as fascism - I seem to remember something about bundles of sticks in old Rome
1 hr
  -> Good point. Duden Herkunftswörterbuch: it. Fascismo ist abgeleitet von it. fascio - Rutenbündel.
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Apr 22, 2005 - Changes made by Kim Metzger:
Field (specific)(none) => Agriculture


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