Glossary B

Bovine refers to a general family grouping of cattle including domestic cattle, bison, African buffalo, the water buffalo, the yak, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes.

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- Bearing (or hand bearing) compass : Bearing (or hand bearing) compass is typically a compass of superlative accuracy that is used in fixing position by triangulation; that is, taking a Reading from 2 or more landmarks so that your position may be plotted by drawing these bearing lines, which will intersect at your position.

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- Beam compass : Beam compass is a type of compass capable of drawing circles and arcs that exceed the limits of a standard compass.

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Binnacle is defined as the mount for the compass, usually located on the wheel's pedestal.

A Book-sewing machine operator is a person who sets up and operates machine to sew gathered and collated signatures (pages) into book form for binding; pulls thread through lubrication box, thread guides, and needle to thread machine, and soaks bobbins of thread in water to lubricate thread;

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Deutsch: Taste / Español: Botón / Português: Botão / Français: Bouton / Italiano: Pulsante /

Button is described as a small cylindrical die steel with an opening larger than the punch point size, generally by a percentage of the thickness of the material being pierced.

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Base metal is the collective term for any and all non-precious metals. It refers to any of the more common and more chemically active metals, example lead, copper;

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A Blue swimming crab (Portunus pelagicus) is a hairy crab refers to a square shaped carapace, a little longer than wide, markedly convex and uneven, bearing four sharply edged epigastric lobes.

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