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Meaning of esqueiro | Babel Free

Noun masculine CEFR B2
esˈkejɾo

Definitions

  1. small container for tinder, tinderbox
  2. flight of steps
  3. small ladder

Equivalents

Български огниво
Čeština křesadlo
Dansk fyrtøj
English flight Tinderbox
Italiano polveriera
日本語 火口箱
한국어 부시쌈지
Македонски борина
မြန်မာဘာသာ မီးခတ်
Nederlands kruitvat tondeldoos
Polski beczka prochu
Română brichetă
Slovenčina kresadlo
Српски kresivo кресиво
Svenska elddon krutdurk
中文 火藥桶
ZH-TW 火藥桶

Examples

“y achou cõ aquel arco hum estormento, et seu esqueyro, et sua ysca, et seu pedernal em el”

there he found, together with that bow, a deed, with his tinderbox, and its tinder, and its flint inside it

“que lle tomara e roubara ena Portella d'Azebedo, hun capuço nouo de morilla et hua capa trabera de mescra branca et hua çinta e hun esqeiro et çen pares de brancas et hun frolín en ouro et seys congros frescos et quatro lagostas”

that they took and robbed from him, in the pass of Acevedo, a new hood of dark cloth and a cloak of white mixed cloth and a ribbon and a tinderbox and a hundred pairs of brancas and a florin of gold and six fresh congers and four lobsters

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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