Meaning of cóbado | Babel Free

Definitions

1. elbow
   masculine
2. cubit, an informal measure of length based on the distance of a forearm and hand
   masculine
3. codo, Spanish cubit, a traditional unit of length equivalent to about 41.6 cm
   historical, masculine
4. cabbage stalk
   masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Et tam grande foy a morteydade que en aquel dia fez enos mouros que lli corria o sangui (o sangui) pelos couedos ajuso”

And the mortality he caused that day on the Moors was such that blood was running from his elbows down

“Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo”

Item, the aforementioned Gonzalo Fernandez and Gonzalo Ferreiro committed themselves to bring, for the construction of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beams of oak, each one at least twenty-seven cubits long

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