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Meaning of couce | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B1
ˈkowθe

Definitions

  1. a kick, especially from a quadruped
    masculine
  2. back yoke of oxen
    masculine
  3. lower and thicker part of a tree trunk
    masculine
  4. stump, part left after a cut, like a tree or a plant
    masculine
  5. hinge
    masculine
  6. handle of a fishing rod
    masculine

Equivalents

English Hinge kick Stump

Examples

“Iten, Johán Cortido, vesiño da çidade d'Ourense, et sua ama diseron, por lo dito juramento que feito avyan, que omes de Aluaro de Taboa[da] que lle lleuaron e tomaron do seu lugar de Casa Noua sete mantas e hun alfamare e tres sabaas de cama et hun pano de cabeça et quatro toucas et hun sodario et viinte e duas maranas de fiado delgado et seys bincos de prata et huas doas de viinte pares de doas et hun leitón, por que lle dauan dosentos mrs, et seys sacos et dous coitellos de mesa et çen mrs vellos en diñeiros, et tres capilejos et dous vntos, et dous legóos nouos et hun espeto et hua fouçe et hun caldeiro de cobre et hun manto vermello et hua sabaa, e que todo lle tomaran e que a apancaran e que a encheran de couçes”

Item, Xoán Cortido, citizen of the city of Ourense, and his housekeeper, told, under the oath they'd done, that men of Álvaro de Taboada took from them and took in their place of Casa Nova: seven blankets, a quilt, three bedsheets, a cloth for the head, and four shawls and a shroud and twenty two skeins of thin yarn and six silver earrings and twenty pairs of beads and a sucking piglet, for which they would give two hundred maravedis, and six bags and two table knives and a hundred old maravedis in coins, and three coifs and two lards, and two new hoes and a roasting skewer and a sickle and a copper cauldron and a red robe and a sheet, and that all this they took and that they beat her up and filled her with kicks

“Drias do rio ajudame, Que o Pegaso è mala vesta, E se me acerta dous couces En ma dia sò Poeta.”

Dryads of the river, help me, because Pegasus is a fierce beast, if he hits me two kicks at a bad time I am a poet

CEFR level

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

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