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Перевод: portcullis

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Тезаурус:

1. The other, in January 1909, was a report from Thomas to the effect that five of the hydraulic cylinders which operated the portcullis gates had been cracked by frost.
2. A connection was made to the stand pipe each time the portcullis end gates were raised.
3. The parliamentary portcullis is featured above his head.
4. Now, aspiring judges are called to a room at the western end of the Palace of Westminster overlooking the Thames, and, seated on chairs stamped with the gilt portcullis, interviewed about their suitability for the job.
5. Preceded by the quaintly named Fitzalan Pursuivant Extraordinary, Rouge Croix Pursuivant, portcullis Pursuivant and the ten other equally lexicographically obscure officers of the College of Arms, each in crested and quartered gold tunics, the two dozen knights of the Order of the Garter shuffle slowly into St George's Chapel beneath a cloudless sky.
6. And then, ahead, were the walls of the Citadel, with its drawbridge down, and the portcullis updrawn to give entry.
7. The upper channel entrances are closed off by portcullis gates similar to those on the tanks, set in the "standing work" at the end of the channel.
8. At each end of the tanks are portcullis gates, which are opened and closed by hydraulic rams.
9. The address is Intrastat Managing Branch, Tariff and Statistical Office Branch 8, HM Customs Excise, Portcullis House, 27 Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS2 6AL.
10. When a tank is in position at the top of the incline, its end faces exactly on to the end of its matching channel, with the two portcullis gates, one on the tank, the other on the channel, exactly opposite to one another.
11. The vessel can be transferred when the portcullis gate on the tank (the one at the opposite end to the one used on the upper transfer) has been lifted.
12. Another one rose, like a portcullis.
13. A groove in the gateway of the north-east tower marks the position of the portcullis; and although the northern part of the castle has long since disappeared, the original floor plan is easily discernible from the remaining foundations.