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Meaning of cambito | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
[kɑmˈbitʊ]

Definitions

  1. hook (specifically, a wooden hook, or a naturally hooked stick)
    masculine
  2. a double hooked implement used for attaching a tool or a pair of oxen to a yoke
    masculine

Equivalents

English hook

Examples

“Et tomarõ das láás dos gãados et dos cabelos das bestas pera fazer delo de vestir, et começarõ de fazer das lãas lyñas et torçerlas cõ cambitos de fustes torçidos em cada hũ dos cabos, et ajuntãdo hũas lyñas cõ as outras enlaçauanas hũas ontre as outras, et teçiam las cõ os dedos et cõ fustes cõmo mellor podiam”

And they took of the wools of the cattle and of the hairs of the horses for making with it wearables; and they began by making threads of the wools, twisting them with hooks of woods crooked in every extreme; and joining some threads with others they linked one in another, and they wove them with their fingers and with woods as well as they could

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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