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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Ships, Sailing, Maritime
Spanish term or phrase:encascadero
From the tourist blurb for a small museum
Caseta tradicional de marineros donde se aloja una pequeña exposición sobre la historia del puerto, embarcaciones tradicionales, artes de pesca y marisqueo.
Cuenta con el único encascadero que se puede visitar en la actualidad en toda Galicia.
I don't think its a Gallego word, although there are only 18 hits on the whole web, none of which shed any light as far as I can see
I'll ask the client if it comes to it, I'm asking on the off chance someone say, "Oooh, my uncle had one of those, its a... "
Explanation: Encascar is to dye or preserve fishing nets. Encascadero would be a place where the nets were hung to dry and perhaps soaked in an infusion of casca, the skins of pressed grapes which would die the nets brown and soak them in tannin…
Thanks for your help Peter and everyone else - as I said above, the client liked nethouse, but all your help certainly got me on the right track 2 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer
Thanks Gilla, your info certainly got me thinking and I ended up with nethouse - I checked with the client and he was perfectly happy. It seems that in this case its a separate shed - Peter's "Fishermans hut/shack" etc is actually the museum as a whole
Everyone has been a great help, many thanks again
Yes, originally the term would have referred to a loft (space under the roof) but it is used to refer to any space used to store, dry or mend fishing nets. Often whole buildings (many of them now converted into swanky flats) are called net lofts. I posted this for linguistic interest only rather than a suggested translation, because it is probably too regionally specific for your purposes.
Loft (upper room under the roof) ORIGIN late Old English , from Old Norse lopt ‘air, sky, upper room,’ of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lucht and German Luft. Is it a loft or what?
From these descriptions, it is what in my neck of the woods (Cornwall) is known as a net loft, which in spite of the name is sometimes a hut or part of a building. The Galicians and the Cornish once had similar lifestyles...
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fisherman's hut
Explanation: Encascar is to dye or preserve fishing nets. Encascadero would be a place where the nets were hung to dry and perhaps soaked in an infusion of casca, the skins of pressed grapes which would die the nets brown and soak them in tannin…
Peter Guest Spain Local time: 04:10 Specializes in field Native speaker of: English PRO pts in category: 223
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Thanks for your help Peter and everyone else - as I said above, the client liked nethouse, but all your help certainly got me on the right track
Reference information: En una de esas pocas referencias que citas se alude a un edificio destinado a "encascadero y secadero de redes de pesca".
Del DRAE:
casca.
(De cascar).
2. f. Corteza de ciertos árboles, que se usa para curtir las pieles y teñir artes y aparejos de pesca.
encascar.
1. tr. Teñir o dar casca a las artes y aparejos de pesca.
http://homesdepedraenbarcosdepau.lacoctelera.net/post/2007/0...
A muller do mariñeiro (La mujer del marinero)
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Pero no sólo era ese su trabajo, también se encargaban del duro trabajo de pisar la cáscara para darle tinta a las redes. Esta era una labor que se realizaba en las pilas de los encascaderos y que tenía por objeto obtener una tinta que se echaba en agua a hervir. Luego, en la resultante, se sumergían las redes, de fibras naturales, para que quedasen protegidas frente al efecto abrasivo del agua del mar.
Andrés Martínez Spain Native speaker of: Spanish PRO pts in category: 28
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