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Reisigfaschinen

English translation: bundled brushwood

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German term or phrase:Reisigfaschinen
English translation:bundled brushwood
Entered by: Kim Metzger

13:46 Nov 27, 2004
German to English translations [PRO]
Science - Agriculture / landscape elements
German term or phrase: Reisigfaschinen
It is a word in a list of things done to protect the soil erosion and along with making a sheet pile wall for fortification in the forest. This is all I have understood about it.
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Local time: 17:45
bundled brushwood
Explanation:
Reisig is brushwood or faggot wood
Faschine is bundled brushwood
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 06:15
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3 +3bundled brushwood
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bundled brushwood


Explanation:
Reisig is brushwood or faggot wood
Faschine is bundled brushwood


    Langenscheidts Fachw�rterbuch Landwirtschaft, Forstwirtschaft, Gartenbau
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 06:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 155

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Cécile Kellermayr
2 mins
agree  Jo Mayr: vom Fach!
7 mins
agree  alec_in_France: sounds fine to me. Just as an interesting aside, I wonder if "faschine" has the same root as fascism - I seem to remember something about bundles of sticks in old Rome
1 hr
  -> Good point. Duden Herkunftswörterbuch: it. Fascismo ist abgeleitet von it. fascio - Rutenbündel.
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