éclopé, -e, n. and adj., cripple, halt; footsore, lame, badly hurt. Il est tout —; he is quite lame.
écloper, v.a., to lame; to make lame; footsore. S’—, v.r., to become lame, footsore.
éclore, v.n., to hatch; to blow, to open; to break, to dawn. Les poulets commencent à —; the chickens are beginning to pierce the shell. Faire — des oiseaux; to hatch birds; (fig.) to bring to light, to usher in; to give birth to, to produce, to bring out; to blow, open.
éclosion, n.f., hatching; blowing, opening.
écluse, n.f., lock, guard-lock, sluice, dam, mill-dam, wear, weir, flood-gate. — de moulin; mill-gate. — à sas; lift-lock. — à vannes; sliding flood-gate. Déversoir à —; weir. — à marée montante; tide-gate.
éclusée, n.f., sluice-full of water; lockage.
écluser, v.a., to build locks; to take a boat through a lock.
éclusier, n.m., sluice-man, lock-keeper.
écobuage, n.m., (agri.) weeding, burning of weeds.
écobue, n.f., weeder, turfing iron.