English translation: supporting front pair/main pair
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Russian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Agriculture
Russian term or phrase:выносная пара / дышловая пара
Description in a work of literary non-fiction of the bulls pulling a four-furrow plow
Передняя выносная пара – рыжие трехлетки Бусуёк (Василек) и Трандафир (Шиповник) – были симпатичные бычки; зато дышловая пара Урыт (Злодей) и Боцолан (Толстомордый) пользовались, как я потом узнала, дурной славой.
Explanation: выносная пара - supporting front pair
дышловая пара - main pair
These are not equivalents. These are rather brief definitions. But maybe the asker will find it reasonable to use definitions instead of equivalents, since not too many people know the exact design of harness and kinds of towing teams of animals anyway (unless a better answer will be provided).
The main pair is дышловая пара. Animals in it are stronger, larger and heavier than in выносная пара. They not only pull, but also stabilize the towed object. The выносная пара only helps the дышловая пара to pull the cart or other object.
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дышловая пара - the pair of horses or other towing animals attached to the towbar (дышло) of a cart, plow etc. One animal in this pair is коренник, the other is пристяжной.
выносная пара - a pair of animals, which are attached to (and in front of) the corresponding animals of the дышловая пара with traces/tugs, and are not attached to the cart or other towed object or any part of it. Выносная пара pulls the animals of the дышловая пара rather than the towed object itself.
Explanation: выносная пара - supporting front pair
дышловая пара - main pair
These are not equivalents. These are rather brief definitions. But maybe the asker will find it reasonable to use definitions instead of equivalents, since not too many people know the exact design of harness and kinds of towing teams of animals anyway (unless a better answer will be provided).
The main pair is дышловая пара. Animals in it are stronger, larger and heavier than in выносная пара. They not only pull, but also stabilize the towed object. The выносная пара only helps the дышловая пара to pull the cart or other object.
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or front supporting pair
dacs04 Local time: 18:13 Native speaker of: Russian, Ukrainian PRO pts in category: 8
Explanation: Pole Pair with a Trace Horse at the Bolshoi Theatre ... - Magnolia Box
www.magnoliabox.com/.../Pole_Pair_with_a_Trace... - United Kingdom
Pole Pair with a Trace Horse at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, 1852 fine art print by Nikolai Egorevich Sverchkov.
Trotting pole exercises.. - HorseTrace.com - Horse Riding Club
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Apr 24, 2007 – Georges field mate Hu is a 16.3 heavyweight coloured cob, he's a very magnificent chap but has about 9 legs most of the time! He is very gre...
grids and pole distances - HorseTrace.com - Horse Riding Club
Working farmer - Google Books Result
The wheels of the chariot, drawn in profile view, appear between the pole horses and the trace horses. At far left and right, the heads of the frontal trace horses, ...
Jack Slep Local time: 11:13 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 48
Explanation: The wheelers are the pair (or in tandem, the single animal) closest to the vehicle. They provide the main braking effort, slowing the vehicle and controlling it downhill by pulling back on the pole or shafts. The strength of the wheelers is often the limiting factor in determining the maximum safe load for a vehicle – while all the animals can pull uphill, only the wheelers can hold the vehicle downhill. For this reason, the strongest pair in a team may be chosen as the wheelers. Wheelers also steer the vehicle by turning the pole or shafts.
The leaders are all the animals in front of the wheelers. As they are also in front of the pole or shafts they cannot provide any braking effort.
A proper plow cut twenty-four inches, and to operate it in land of average difficulty eight to ten yoke of oxen were required. These were chosen, as to leaders and wheelers, with almost as much care as a coachman would have taken his team of horses when he desired to make fancy movements upon the road or in a track competition.
The Saturday evening post, Volume 194, pg. 35 http://www.google.it/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&hl=it&q=wheelers l...
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As mentioned by Jack, I seem to have wrote the terms in the wrong order.
дышловая пара = wheelers
выносная пара = leaders
Maria Fokin Italy Local time: 17:13 Native speaker of: English, Russian
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