Meaning of caravilla | Babel Free

Definitions

1. hook bolt; latch
   feminine
2. peg
   feminine
3. peg under the bed of the cart used for tying and securing the load with ropes
   feminine
4. one of several pegs which fasten the wheels to the axe in a traditional Galician cart
   feminine

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Examples

“Fun ó muiño d'abaixo, e volvín polo d'arriba; o d'abaixo ten ferrollo, o d'arriba caravilla.”

I went to the watermill below, I came back by the one above; the one below has a bolt, and the one above a latch.

“outros contaban que Beja lle apretara as carabillas. Esto ben podrà ser certo, p[o]rq[u]e cando este Señor lle berraba, el tembraba, é aposto eu que tiña ó ollo do cu tan cerrado, que era imposible coupese un grau de millo p[o]r el;”

others told that Beja had tightened his pegs. This is probably true, because when this lord was shouting him, he was trembling and I bet that his asshole was so tight that it was not possible that a corn grain entered in it

“destes por nove cravillas para as traves viinte moravedis”

You gave, for nine pegs for the beans, twenty maravedis

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