Refreshment
In shipping , refreshment is a paint that originally consisted of wood tar , tar varnish and turpentine spirit in a ratio of 8: 4: 1.
Usage
It is used both to preserve wooden components of the ship and to preserve the standing goods on sailing ships . Nowadays it often consists of root tar and linseed oil in a ratio of 30:70 and a maximum of three percent addition of siccative as a drying accelerator. However, there were and are also deviating recipes, the composition and type of additives favored by the crew members and sometimes kept as a secret. The linseed oil softens old tar and thus ensures that the tar can penetrate the rope to keep water out. It is on wooden sailing ships present example for preservation of wood but mainly of natural fiber ropes and steel cables in Klee touring (wrapping) applied with a brush to emphasize as much as possible in the Keepen (wells).
Word history
The nautical "refreshment" is derived from the verb "labsalen" or "labsalben", not from the synonym for "benefit, refreshment, relaxation", also known in German as "refreshment ". "Labsalben", on the other hand, originated from the Dutch "lapsalven", "rub off or rub in with a rag", while the second meaning of the word is derived from the verb "laben" - probably a loan word from the Latin "lavare", "to wash" - derived. In its final meaning, “Labsal” was voted the fourth most beautiful threatened word in the German language in 2007.
literature
- Ulrich Scharnow (ed.): Lexicon of seafaring . 5th supplemented edition. Transpress, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-344-00190-6 , p. 602.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Kühl: Yacht building and yacht sailing . Europäische Hochschulverlag, ISBN 3-86741-992-2 , p. 309 (reprint from 1910).
- ^ Dtv-Lexikon, a conversation lexicon in 20 volumes, Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-423-03061-5 .
- ↑ a b c Duden, the large dictionary of the German language; 3rd edition, 1999, ISBN 3-411-04733-X .
- ↑ Wissen.de: refreshment .
- ^ Results of the competition "Das threatened Wort". December 2006 to May 15, 2007. Bodo Mrozek, accessed September 30, 2013 .