Glossary B

Buckram is described as a heavy weave cotton cloth dyed and filled with a compound to make it more durable. Suitable for sustained use and heavier than book cloth.

Broiler or Fryer refers to a broiler or fryer is a young chicken, usually under 13 weeks of age, of either sex, that is tender-meated with soft, pliable, smooth-textured skin and flexible breastbone cartilage.

Broiler is characterized as mature, young chicken of either sex produced for meat. The terms broilers, fryers and young chickens are interchangeable.

Bristle brush refers to a paint brush with filaments made up of animal hair strands usually hog hair. Bristle brushes are used for alkyd paint.

Bridge conveyor is described as a short conveyor hung from the boom of a mining or loading machine, with the other end attached to a receiving bin that dollies along a frame supported by the room or entry conveyor tailpiece.

Bridge carrier is described as a rubber-tyre-mounted mobile conveyor, about 9.1 m long, used as an intermediate unit to create a system of articulated conveyors between a mining machine and a room or entry conveyor.

Brick hammer is described as a hammer with a head of approximately 24oz used by the bricklayer. It has a square striking face used for tapping bricks into place and a sharp chisel end for cutting bricks to shape.

Breeding livestock is characterized as livestock owned for the primary purpose of producing offspring.