enjambeur

English translation: high-clearance tractor / stilt tractor

16:35 Jan 10, 2002

French to English translations [PRO]
Wine / Oenology / Viticulture / Wine-growing, oenology

French term or phrase: enjambeur

Wine-growing.
a special type of tractor that "climbs over" vineyard rows and carries out pruning and harvesting operations

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Local time: 08:48

English translation:high-clearance tractor / stilt tractor

Explanation:
Straight out of the GDT:

high clearance tractor

Terme(s) apparenté(s)
stilt tractor

Variante(s) graphique(s)
high-clearance tractor enjambeur n. m.

Terme(s) apparenté(s)
tracteur enjambeur n. m.

Déf. :
Type de tracteur enjambant un rang de vigne (ou d'une autre culture).
Tracteur plus particulièrement destiné aux travaux et traitement des cultures arbustives, la garde au sol et la voie très importantes (portique) permettant d'enjamber une ou deux rangées de plantes. (S)

Note(s) :
Courant dans un des domaines techniques ou scientifiques.

HTH

Mary

Selected response from:

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:48

Grading comment

Thanks ever so much for yr rapid reply, and pls forgive my taking so long to grade it... my computer was down.

Justice
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high-clearance tractor / stilt tractor

Mary Worby

caterpillar vehicle

Daniela Penn

tracteur enjambeur viticole

Suzanne Bernard

Straddler

jmleger

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peer agreement (net): +6

high-clearance tractor / stilt tractor

Mary Worby
United Kingdom
Local time: 07:48
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Grading comment

Thanks ever so much for yr rapid reply, and pls forgive my taking so long to grade it... my computer was down.

Justice

5 mins confidence:

caterpillar vehicle

Explanation:
a striding vehicle

Daniela Penn
Local time: 08:48
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German

38 mins confidence:

tracteur enjambeur viticole

Explanation:
From Termium:

Domaine: Tracteurs agricoles; Outillage agricole et horticole

Anglais
high-clearance vineyard tractor

EX-a high clearance tractor [is] capable of straddling one or more rows. Sometimes tractors of this type are ordinary machines modified [but] more often, a high-clearance vineyard tractor is a special machine

Français

tracteur enjambeur viticole MASC
tracteur enjambeur vigneron MASC

EX- les tracteurs enjambeurs peuvent [être] conçus au départ pour être des enjambeurs viticoles; parmi ceux-ci, il faut distinguer: les tracteurs étroits stabilisés et les tracteurs enjambeurs viticoles.

Reference: http://www.termium.com

Suzanne Bernard
Local time: 03:48
Native speaker of:

English,

French

4 hrs confidence:

Straddler

Explanation:
or straddler tractor, used in vineyard applications.

jmleger
Local time: 01:48
Native speaker of:

French
PRO pts in category: 11

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