shocks of wheat

Spanish translation: hacinas de trigo

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English term or phrase:	shocks of wheat
Spanish translation:	hacinas de trigo
Entered by:	Vanina Garcia

03:47 Apr 27, 2008

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Tech/Engineering - Agriculture

English term or phrase: shocks of wheat

Farm workers are loading shocks of wheat onto a wagon to haul to the threshing machine.
Machines called binders that were pulled by horses harvested the wheat. They cut and bound the wheat stems into sheaves or bundles. Farm workers stacked the sheaves into piles called shocks. These shocks were left in the field until the wheat stems dried out.
(What i have found so far tells me that "shocks" are "gavillas" buta that a "sheaf" is a "gavilla" too, so I need an laternative to that word since in this case the group of sheaves forms a shock of wheat. Thanks!)

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hacinas de trigo

Explanation:
Referencia en diccionario:

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/translation/spanis...

Otra referencia, donde pone "hacina de gavillas":

http://iate.europa.eu/iatediff/SearchByQuery.do?method=searc...

Referencias pertinentes para "hacinas de trigo":

http://www.google.es/search?hl=es&q="hacinas de trigo"&meta=

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Note added at 6 hrs (2008-04-27 09:51:13 GMT)
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Buscando hacinas en Google imágenes y sobre todo imágenes de Hacinas que es un municipio de Burgos en España
http://images.google.es/images?gbv=2&hl=es&q=hacinas campo

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Bubo Coroman (X)

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Gracias Deborah y Cecilia, coincido con ustedes. Muy valiosa la información. Muchas gracias!
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pacas de trigo

Alfonso Berron

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hacinas de trigo

Bubo Coroman (X)

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pacas de trigo

Explanation:
como las pacas de algodon o de heno. Entre otras definiciones de shock esta:

shock (shŏk) n.
1. A number of sheaves of grain stacked upright in a field for drying.
2. A thick heavy mass: a shock of white hair.

Reference: http://www.answers.com/topic/shock?cat=health

Alfonso Berron
Mexico
Local time: 17:15
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Spanish

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Asker: Muchas gracias Rafael por la sugerencia. En este caso coincido con Deborah Lockett, pero es muy interesante tu aporte. Gracias!

5 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

hacinas de trigo

Bubo Coroman (X)
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Gracias Deborah y Cecilia, coincido con ustedes. Muy valiosa la información. Muchas gracias!

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