terrier

terrier

Chien vif, généralement petit, élevé à l’origine pour chasser de petits animaux vivant sous terre.

En anglais simple : A lively type of dog, usually small, originally used to hunt small animals living underground.

• Our terrier loves long walks.
• Two terriers chased each other around the garden.
• She adopted a lively terrier from the shelter.

Expressions courantes : small terrier, terrier puppy, terrier breed

acharné, battant

Personne qui poursuit ses efforts et refuse d’abandonner.

En anglais simple : Someone who keeps trying hard and refuses to give up.

• That reporter is a real terrier.
• The lawyer was a terrier when questioning witnesses.
• Once she starts investigating, she is an absolute terrier.

Expressions courantes : little terrier, real terrier

terrier, registre foncier

Ancien registre décrivant des terres, leur étendue, leurs limites et leurs propriétaires.

En anglais simple : An old written record describing land, its size, its boundaries, and who owns it.

• The terrier lists the church's land.
• A seventeenth-century terrier describes the estate boundaries.
• Historians compared two terriers to trace changes in ownership.

Synonymes : land register

Expressions courantes : parish terrier, estate terrier, land terrier

tarière

Outil servant à faire des trous.

En anglais simple : A tool used to make holes.

• He used a terrier to make the hole.
• The carpenter turned the terrier slowly.
• An old terrier lay among the workshop tools.

Synonymes : auger, borer

Expressions courantes : use a terrier, terrier tool