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Bar A DICTIONARY OF<br />

(3) ; (4) Braz. variously coloured layer <strong>of</strong> fine sand mixed with clay<br />

in which the cascalho <strong>of</strong> the valley- deposits rests it is distinguished<br />

from the latter by being bedded, but it also contains diamonds (Bauer).<br />

BARR6N, large bar, crowbar, sijn. barra (1), barreta (1), barreton, palanca<br />

(2) de hierro, see pie (2) ; b. de compuerta, hydr. sluice-bar (Ponce dc<br />

Le6n).<br />

BARROTE, (1) batten or scantling, see listen ; escalera de b.,<br />

(3) ; (2) rail, fish-plate (Ponce de Leon),<br />

see eclisa.<br />

see escalera<br />

BARTOLINA, Mex. watchman's house at mine entrance (Dwight), comp.<br />

barraca.<br />

BARZC^N, strap used for tying a man to a rope when descending a shaft,<br />

and having one foot in a loop, see bajada, u. caballo (3). (NOTE. In<br />

Spain = strap with which oxen are yoked to the plough-beam.)<br />

BARZONAZOS, see latigazos.<br />

BASALTO, basalt.<br />

BASCULA, (1) lever, pole, staff, see palanca (1) ; (2) reciprocating motion ;<br />

palanca (6) de b., rock-shaft or rocker-shaft ; vagon de b., see u. vagon ;<br />

(3) platform scale ; met. scale for weighing charges ; rail, weighbridge.<br />

BASCULADOR, transp. c.m. tippler, Molina very properly confines the term<br />

to apparatus for tipping wagons at a sufficient angle to discharge their<br />

contents revolving tipplers being known as volcadores, see u. vagon.<br />

BASTARDA, bastard file, see lima.<br />

BASTARDO, DA, adj. bastard, used in the same sense as in English, e.g.,<br />

bastard lode, rock or working.<br />

BASTIDOR, (1) frame or carriage <strong>of</strong> a rock-drill (perforador), syn. carro (4),<br />

soporte (3) ; (2) frame carrying the body <strong>of</strong> a wagon or tub [carro<br />

(2)] ; (3) hoist, a vertical frame for carrying wagons suspended by<br />

hooks, syn. estribo (5) replaced by cage [jaula (2)] ; (4) pump, see u.<br />

horquilla (1) ; (5) timb. frame (Ponce de Leon), see cuadro (1) portada.<br />

BASTIMENTO, Mex. miner's luncheon (Dwight).<br />

BASTO, (1) pack-saddle, see aparejo (2) ; (2) mech. prep, coarseness <strong>of</strong><br />

screens (Gamba), see criba (2).<br />

BASTONES, Palencia, Sp. c.m. timb. thin branches used in lagging [revestimiento<br />

(1)].<br />

BASURA DE PLOMO, Mex. lead-dross (Dwight) (Span. = sweepings).<br />

BATAN, (fulling-mill), tierra de b., fuller's earth, see greda (1).<br />

BATANE DE PIEDRA, Cerro de Pasco, Peru, stone plate for grinding<br />

simples (O. F. Pfordte).<br />

BATEA (Braz. bateia), Span. Am. a concave wooden vessel used in goldwashing,<br />

about 20 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep, the dulang <strong>of</strong><br />

Malaya and the halagay <strong>of</strong> the Mysore Province <strong>of</strong> India are eastern<br />

varieties ; b. apuradora, Mex. in the patio process, a wooden bowl<br />

floating in the pila apuradora to receive the cabecilla (2) (G. F. Lyon,<br />

1828), which is re-washed ; b. larga, see tepestate ; in Ant. Col. the<br />

following kinds are used : (a) b. vetadora, 1 foot in diameter, with<br />

ears or handles ; (6) b. lavadora, generally 16 inches in diameter by<br />

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