Meaning of cano | Babel Free

Definitions

1. pipe, tube
   masculine
2. aqueduct, duct for taking water to a mill or to a fountain, either in the surface or under it
   masculine
3. sewer
   archaic, masculine
4. quill, calamus of a feather
   masculine
5. corn stalk
   masculine
6. spout
   masculine
7. barrel (of a gun)
   masculine
8. handle of an oar
   masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Andado o primeyro ano do rreynado del rey dõ Ordono, fezo Abderamẽ lousar et est[r]ar de pedra todas [as] cales de Cordoua, et traier per canos de plomo agoa da serra aa villa”

During the first year of the reign of king Ordoño, Abderrahman ordered to pave in stone every street in Cordoba, and to bring by lead pipes water from the mountains to the city

“como os canos porque ben a augua aa praza do campo da dita çidade esten gardados e reparados en tal maneira que a augoa que por eles ben e ha de bir a os tornos da dita praça do campo”

that the ducts that bring the water to the Praza [Square] do Campo of this city must be guarded and repaired, so that the water that run along them should come to the spouts of the aforementioned Praza do Campo

“por rasón que o cano da fonte Arcada estaua atuado e tapado ena orta do dito Pero Gomes”

because the aqueduct of the Arched Fountain was clogged and obstructed at Pedro Gomez's garden

“1418, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 128”

that he should open the sewer through which the water comes out of those baths, down under the stone arch, and he should clean and maintain and repair the aforementioned sewer so that the water of these baths comes out freely

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