Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
porte-mines
English translation:
mine carrier
French term
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Native in: English 
Works in: German to English, French to English, Spanish to English
porte-mines
En face de XX se tenaient immobiles, comme pétrifiés sur place, le porte-mines de garde cuirassé et le gracieux yacht XX.
L'obscurité sera descendue sur le golfe et seul le projecteur du porte-mines promènera gaiement sa lumière sur la rade et les touffes de roseaux..
Thanks for your help!
| 4 +8 | mine carrier |
erickl
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| 4 +1 | Mine layer |
Shankaran Viswanathan
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| 3 +1 | minelayer |
Roland Lelaj
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Apr 20, 2009 07:34: writeaway changed "Field" from "Art/Literary" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "History" to "Ships, Sailing, Maritime"
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Proposed translations
mine carrier
India
Satisfait ou remboursé
Native in: French (Variant: Standard-France) 
, English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English, English to French, English to Hindi, and 3 more.
Mine layer
Bâtiment spécialement aménagé pour mouiller des mines...
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Etienne Muylle Wallace
: yes, as the expression is 'to lay mines', it is the opposite job of a mine sweeper (dragueur de mines)
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Jack Dunwell
: yes, and I believe it's one word!
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Canada
Reliable and on time quality translation
Native in: Albanian (Variants: Toske / Tosk, Kosovo, Albanian (standard), Gegë / Gheg) , Italian (Variants: Standard-Italy, Swiss )
Works in: English to Albanian, English to Italian, Italian to Albanian, and 2 more.
minelayer
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Traducteur Tech
: This is the correct spelling of a ship that deploys mines.
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Thank You Andrew!
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Michael GREEN
: Yes for the spelling, but on reflection, I don't think this IS a "ship that deploys mines"// I know what a minelayer is, thank you ! I meant that a "porte-mines" is not a "ship that deploys mines!!
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Yes, it is the exact ship that deploys mines: http://www.answers.com/topic/minelayer
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Mary Carroll Richer LaFlèche
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Merci Mary Carroll!
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erickl
: mine layer is a "mouilleur de mines" differenrt altogether
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I think and believe that the minelayer does both: carries and deploys mines.
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