Meaning of collón | Babel Free
koˈɟoŋDefinitions
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ball (a testicle), bollock masculine, plural-normally, vulgar
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root of asphodelus masculine
Equivalents
Examples
“Se se faz o inchaço dos colloos por rrazon dos entestinos que caen eno messen, que he huun follello dontre elles et os colloõs, crasten o Cauallo que ouuer esta door, et tirado o collon, que for danado ou anbos, uoluan logo a seu lugar os entestinos et cosam a fendedura et queimen a chaga darredor con fero feruente”
if there is inflammation in the testicles because of the intestines that fall in the mesentery, i.e., the pellicle in between them and the testicles, they should geld the horse, and after the extraction of the injured testicle, or of both of them, they should return the intestines and sew the fissure and burn the injury with a red hot iron
“E Nota que o poo dos collos das abroteas ual mays que todos llos outros, et dos ditos poos deuen vsar nos llugarres neruossos et jntrincados de veas et darterias”
Take note that the powder of the rhizomes [lit. bollocks] of the asphodels has more value than all the rest, and that these powders should be used in places that are nervous and entangled with veins and arteries
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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