Meaning of cárcava | Babel Free

Definitions

1. ditch, moat, trench
   feminine
2. ditch, canal
   feminine
3. Equivalent to 'Moat': A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.

Equivalents

Examples

“como se departe ençima pelo lavradio et pello souto de Fondeyxo segundo commo foy a çima a carcava do castro”

as it departs up by the farm field and by the orchard of chestnut trees of Fondeixo, as it goes up till the moat of the hill-fort

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