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acoderado

English translation: (the) moorings

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Spanish term or phrase:acoderado
English translation:(the) moorings
Entered by: Neil Phillipson

19:11 Dec 15, 2004
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / ships
Spanish term or phrase: acoderado
La oración dice "debido al mal tiempo se hacía difícil mantenerse acoderado"
Se trata de dos buques que estaban unidos por cables, pero no sé si existe un término similar en inglés.
Muchas gracias por la ayuda.
Guillermina Canale
Local time: 09:03
due to the bad weather, it proved difficult to maintain (the) moorings
Explanation:
Sí, de acuerdo con smarttrans del Eurodicautom, aquí pongo la frase completa para que puedas ver como sí cabe bien el término.

Suerte,
Neil.
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Neil Phillipson
Local time: 19:03
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2alongside
Peter Haden
5in tow
rhandler
4 +1due to the bad weather, it proved difficult to maintain (the) moorings
Neil Phillipson
3to moor lead and stern = acoderar
Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)


  

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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
alongside


Explanation:
In this case you could say something like "In view of the bad weather it was difficult to remain alongside......"

Peter Haden
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agree  Lisa Russell
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agree  David Brown
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
to moor lead and stern = acoderar


Explanation:
Según Eurodictautom. No estoy segura de que se pueda aplicar en este contexto...

Margarita Ezquerra (Smart Translators, S.L.)
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
in tow


Explanation:
Vea lo que significa "acoderar" (Babylon):

• Acoderar

Asegurar con cadenas la dirección de un buque fondeado.
Dar una codera a la cadena del ancla, o a un objeto en tierra o a flote.

El DRAE así define "codera":

5. f. Mar. Cabo grueso con que se amarra el buque, por la popa, a otra embarcación, a una boya o a tierra, para mantenerlo presentando el costado en determinada dirección.

"in tow" es así definido por el Webster's:

tow1 (to)
vt.
1 to pull by a rope or chain
2 to pull or drag behind
n.
1 a towing or being towed
2 something towed
3 towline
SYN. pull
in tow
1 being towed
2 in one's company or retinue
3 under one's control or charge

Etymology
[ME towen < OE togian < IE base *deuk-, to pull > duct]

(C)1995 Zane Publishing, Inc. (C)1994, 1991, 1988 Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Ejemplos:

The Anzac Landing at Gallipoli - Reports by War Correspondents
... Very slowly, the boats in tow, like twelve great snakes, moved towards the shore. Each edged towards each other in order to reach the beach four cables ...
www.anzacsite.gov.au/1landing/bartlett.html

GREENEVILLE HIKING CLUB - Photo Album Okefenokee Swamp
... We were forced to get out of the canoes and wade approximately a mile and a half through the black waters and muck of the swamp with the boats in tow. ...
greenevillehikers.xtn.net/ photo_album-okefenokee_swamp.html

GA Henty : By Sheer Pluck : Chapter XVIII. The Attack on Elmina
... In five minutes from the first shot being fired all was over, the launch was steaming down with the boats in tow towards the mouth of the river, ...
www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid./bookid.2224/sec.18/



    Reference: http://www.babylon.com
    Reference: http://www.rae.es
rhandler
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27 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
due to the bad weather, it proved difficult to maintain (the) moorings


Explanation:
Sí, de acuerdo con smarttrans del Eurodicautom, aquí pongo la frase completa para que puedas ver como sí cabe bien el término.

Suerte,
Neil.

Neil Phillipson
Local time: 19:03
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thanks a lot!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jerome Chiecchio: es lo mas claro
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