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Meaning of estivada | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B2
estiˈβaða̝

Definitions

  1. swidden (a bounded area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn)
    feminine
  2. slash and burn (a technique in agriculture when a communal terrain is provisionally divided and bounded, and the plant matter in it is roughly cut down and then burned over to prepare it for a few crops)
    feminine
  3. stake used for enclosing a terrain
    feminine

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Examples

“Et mays queremos et prazenos que se os labradores que morarẽ enos dictos lugares de Segelle et Grueyro que vos assy aforamos forẽ a fazer et labrar estiuadas enos dictos montes da dicta Graña de Carnẽes que se veñam asaluo para vos et vos paguen o terradego del.”

And we want, and it pleases us, that if the farmers that live in that places names Seselle and Brueiro, that we rent to you, went to slash and burn in the aforementioned hills belonging to the Farm of Carnes, that they can came safely unto you and they shall pay to you the corresponding taxes

CEFR level

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

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