Meaning of buxo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. box (Buxus sempervirens)
   masculine
2. boxwood
   masculine
3. shaft of a watermill, which transmits the movement from the wheel to the running millstone
   masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Médea dusia de colleres de buxo, que acharon en un correo pechado, et mays acharon eno dito correo noue mrs en rayás et triinta mrs en coroados vellos.”

Half a dozen boxwood spoons, that they found inside a closed mail, and they also found inside said mail nine maravedis in royals and thirty maravedis in old crowns

“1434, A. López Carreira (ed.), Libro de notas de Álvaro Afonso (1434), doc. 215”

that I shall give you these mills ready and repaired of millstones and shafts and irons and chutes and waterwheels and of all the other necessary things

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