Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Gummibalg
English translation:
rubber gaiter
Added to glossary by
Cristina Moldovan do Amaral
Oct 18, 2001 14:38
22 yrs ago
German term
Spain
Julie Neill, BA (Hons), MCIL, MITI
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Gummibalg
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Not much to go on I'm afraid. Context: a farmer is describing a fault on his tractor - 'Kurzschluß an der Elektrik der Hi-Lo Schaltung im Gummibalg des Ganghebels'.
Can anyone have a guess at what a 'Gummibalg' might be?
Can anyone have a guess at what a 'Gummibalg' might be?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 +2 | rubber gaiter |
Mary Worby
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| 4 | rubber boot |
shasas
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| 4 | Rubber sleeve |
gangels (X)
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| 4 | rubber cover for the stick shift |
Kim Metzger
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| 4 | Rubber bellows |
Irina Glozman
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Proposed translations
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Mary Worby
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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Works in: German to English, French to English
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rubber gaiter
You wanted a guess ...
The gear lever gaiter is the squashy bit around the bottom of the gear lever, made of fabric or leather (in posh cars!) - could conceivably be made of rubber ...
HTH
Mary
The gear lever gaiter is the squashy bit around the bottom of the gear lever, made of fabric or leather (in posh cars!) - could conceivably be made of rubber ...
HTH
Mary
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13 mins
rubber boot
It's nothing more but the rubber boot surrounding the bottom of the gear shifter :)
13 mins
Rubber sleeve
or customarily just "sleeve ". The covering around mechanical joints ans/or articulated members like you find on any gearshift (Ganghebel)
14 mins
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Mexico
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Mexico
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rubber cover for the stick shift
It's the accordion-like rubber thing that covers the stick shift.
Reference:
17 mins
Irina Glozman
United States
United States
United States
Professional Certified Translator
Native in: Russian
Works in: Hebrew, English to Russian, Hebrew to Russian, and 5 more.
Rubber bellows
Bellows =
a. 1. An apparatus for producing a strong current of air, as for sounding a pipe organ or increasing the draft to a fire, consisting of a flexible, valved air chamber that is contracted and expanded by pumping to force the air through a nozzle
2. Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus.
a. 1. An apparatus for producing a strong current of air, as for sounding a pipe organ or increasing the draft to a fire, consisting of a flexible, valved air chamber that is contracted and expanded by pumping to force the air through a nozzle
2. Something, such as the pleated windbag of an accordion, that resembles this apparatus.
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