At 11:20 25/01/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I have been looking over a beautiful little children's book, L'Abeille.  As
>the title may indicate it is in French.
>
>In it the tools of the beekeeper are shown.  I can figure out most, but
>there is something listed as "le soufflet".  It kind of looks like a
>bellows.  Does anyone know what this is known as in English and what is its
>purpose?
>
>Whitney Cranshaw
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>Modern dictionary ---- Souffler, verb, to blow
                                   Soufflet, noun masculine, Bellows (of a
forge or camera) so it is obviously a form of smoker.  In 1951  IBRA, then
BRA, published a little dictionary of beekeeping terms in four languages,
English, French, German and Dutch and offered the following.
Smoker (E),    Enfumoir,  le (F),   Rauchapparat, der (G),   Beroker, mas.,
and Rookapparat, neut. (D)
 
If a member of IBRA should chance to read this perhaps he (she) could say if
this dictionary has been reprinted or is still available.  Over the years I
have found it very useful.
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