Meaning of foxo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. pit (hole in the ground)
   masculine
2. trapping pit (a camouflaged pit used to capture large animals)
   masculine
3. moat (defensive ditch surrounding a fortification)
   masculine
4. gap (difference between ideas, concepts or situations)
   figuratively, masculine
5. ditch
   masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“e con non se coñeceren a si mesmos nin veren, por veces, un foxo ou unha pedra diante deles, […]”

and as they didn’t know themselves nor could see, sometimes, a pit or a rock in front of them, […]

“mandamos que enna friigesía que ouuer XV friigeses ou mays poucos, se non tomaren lobo ou loba ou camada delles, ou non correren cada domaa con elles sen enganno segundo que e de custume des o primeyro sabado de quaresma ata dia de Sam Joham de Juyo, ou non fezeren o ffogio, que pagen X mrs.”

We order that in the parish that has 15 parishioners or more, if they don't catch a wolf or litter of them, or if they don't raid them weekly without trickery, as it is customary, since the first Saturday of Lent till Saint John's day in June, or if they don't build the pit, then they shall pay 10 mrs.

“As trampas son de dúas castes: foxos e garamelos.”

There are two classes of traps: pits and mouse traps.

“, […] o bispo que rodeou con muralla, torres e foxo todo o ámbito do Locus Sanctus e que ocupaba o que é hoxe a catedral, a praza da Quintana e os mosteiro de San Paio de Antealtares con algunhas das rúas adxacentes.”

, […] the bishop who surrounded with a wall, towers and a moat the entirety of the Locus Sanctus and which occupied what today is the cathedral, the Quintana square and the monastery of Saint Pelagius with some adjacent streets.

“Nesta aldea global na que vivimos e na que se afonda cada vez máis o foxo que separa aos que teñen dos que non teñen, […]”

In this global village we live and where the gap which separates those who have from those who don’t deepens more and more, […]

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