Teffi: a jeweller's tweezers

[Peter Scotto]

Dear Robert,

Dal' gives корец as a regional term  for "scoop" or "ladle" especially one
made of metal.

It also seems to be a specialized bee-keeping term to describe a flat
wooden scoop or spoon used to move bees around.

See page 91 of the following:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/164712750/Буткевич-Самоучитель-пчеловодство

These may have application in the passage you cite.

Peter Scotto
Mount Holyoke College


2014-05-22 13:58 GMT-04:00 Robert Chandler <kcf19 at dial.pipex.com>:

> Dear all,
>
> Can anyone make anything of this word «корцы»?  I had imagined it might be
> German, but I can't find it in my German-English dictionary.
>
> Расстилал на столе под лампой кусок черного бархата и длинными тонкими
> щипцами, которые он называл «корцы», вынимал из коробочки синие, зеленые,
> красные огоньки, раскладывал на бархате, рассматривал, рассказывал.
>
> All the best,
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Chandler, 42 Milson Road, London, W14 OLD
>
>
>
>
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