Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
hache-boucharde
English translation:
bush hammer axe
Added to glossary by
Victoria Barkoff
Mar 2, 2005 15:49
19 yrs ago
French term
English translator/editor for 17 years
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, English
hache-boucharde
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Archaeology
An ancient Roman tool.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 2 | More details? |
Bourth (X)
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| 3 | see site |
Sandra C.
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| 3 | bush ax/axe |
Francis MARC
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Proposed translations
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Selected
More details?
Do you have more information on the shape of this tool and what it was used for?
My first instinct is to think that it might be a "boucharde" or "bush hammer": "A hand-hld machine (usually air-driven), or a mason's hammer, with rows of raised, tooth-like pyramids on its face [like a steak-tenderizing hammer!], used for hacking or scabbling the surface of fairly hard materials such as stone or concrete"
[Scott/Penguin Dict. of Building]
However the "hache" part suggests it is a double-headed tool, possibly with a "bush hammer" side and an axe-type blade on the other side. Note the shape of a "bricklayer's hammer", also called a "brick axe" or "axhammer: on the back of the hammer face is a sharp prong (not a wood axe blade however, but like a pick-axe) used for breaking and dressing bricks.
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Note added at 7 hrs 42 mins (2005-03-02 23:31:43 GMT)
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Given the Roman \"hammer axe\" and \"adze axe\" shown on http://www.edgarlowen.com/a45ar.html, the best I can think of is \"bush-hammer/axe\".
My first instinct is to think that it might be a "boucharde" or "bush hammer": "A hand-hld machine (usually air-driven), or a mason's hammer, with rows of raised, tooth-like pyramids on its face [like a steak-tenderizing hammer!], used for hacking or scabbling the surface of fairly hard materials such as stone or concrete"
[Scott/Penguin Dict. of Building]
However the "hache" part suggests it is a double-headed tool, possibly with a "bush hammer" side and an axe-type blade on the other side. Note the shape of a "bricklayer's hammer", also called a "brick axe" or "axhammer: on the back of the hammer face is a sharp prong (not a wood axe blade however, but like a pick-axe) used for breaking and dressing bricks.
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Note added at 7 hrs 42 mins (2005-03-02 23:31:43 GMT)
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Given the Roman \"hammer axe\" and \"adze axe\" shown on http://www.edgarlowen.com/a45ar.html, the best I can think of is \"bush-hammer/axe\".
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Your comments have led me to "bush hammer axe"."
13 mins
see site
this site might help you, especially if you have illustrations. Good luck!
LacusCurtius • Iron Objects in Roman Britain (John Ward, 1911)
... H, with a spike behind, is certainly a butcher's pole-axe. ... The small size of the
Roman and the prehistoric sickles is due to the ancient custom of ...
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/_Texts/WARREB/11*.html
LacusCurtius • Iron Objects in Roman Britain (John Ward, 1911)
... H, with a spike behind, is certainly a butcher's pole-axe. ... The small size of the
Roman and the prehistoric sickles is due to the ancient custom of ...
penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/ Places/Europe/Great_Britain/_Periods/Roman/_Texts/WARREB/11*.html
7 mins
bush ax/axe
Declined
... Each prisoner on the chain gang is usually given a bush axe or some other weapon ...
It sounds like something from the days of the Romans and the reign of Romanov. ...
www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/ prisonact-list/1996-June/000481.html - 9k
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Note added at 3 hrs 51 mins (2005-03-02 19:40:57 GMT)
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according to the description it could be too \"bush hammer\" (see Termium description:
omaine(s)
– Construction Tools
– Concrete Facilities and Equipment
Domaine(s)
– Outils (Construction)
– Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)
Domaine(s)
– Herramientas (Construcción)
– Equipo e instalaciones para el
hormigonado
bush hammer Source CORRECT,
NORMALISÉ
bushhammer Source CORRECT
charring hammer Source
granulating hammer Source
picking hammer Source
boucharde Source CORRECT, FÉM
marteau bouchardeur Source
CORRECT, MASC, NORMALISÉ
martillo para escodar Source
MASC
DEF – A compressed-air or electric
hammer having a serrated face and
containing many pyramid-shaped
points that is used to dress a
concrete or stone surface. Source
OBS – bush hammer: term
standardized by ISO. Source
DEF – Marteau de tailleur de pierre,
à deux têtes couvertes de pointes
pyramidales dont la finesse est
proportionnée à la finesse du travail.
It sounds like something from the days of the Romans and the reign of Romanov. ...
www.prisonactivist.org/pipermail/ prisonact-list/1996-June/000481.html - 9k
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Note added at 3 hrs 51 mins (2005-03-02 19:40:57 GMT)
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according to the description it could be too \"bush hammer\" (see Termium description:
omaine(s)
– Construction Tools
– Concrete Facilities and Equipment
Domaine(s)
– Outils (Construction)
– Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)
Domaine(s)
– Herramientas (Construcción)
– Equipo e instalaciones para el
hormigonado
bush hammer Source CORRECT,
NORMALISÉ
bushhammer Source CORRECT
charring hammer Source
granulating hammer Source
picking hammer Source
boucharde Source CORRECT, FÉM
marteau bouchardeur Source
CORRECT, MASC, NORMALISÉ
martillo para escodar Source
MASC
DEF – A compressed-air or electric
hammer having a serrated face and
containing many pyramid-shaped
points that is used to dress a
concrete or stone surface. Source
OBS – bush hammer: term
standardized by ISO. Source
DEF – Marteau de tailleur de pierre,
à deux têtes couvertes de pointes
pyramidales dont la finesse est
proportionnée à la finesse du travail.
Comment: "Thanks for the suggestion, but
from the online illustrations, a bush axe appears to be a single-headed axe."
Discussion
It was used for stonecutting.