Meaning of mollar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to wet; to moisten
   transitive
2. to get wet (to come into contact with water)
   pronominal

Equivalents

Examples

“Et as rruas erã moy grãdes, de hũa parte et da outra, et erã feytas per grande engeño, et erã de suso cubertas de bóueda, et juso erã estradas per poyaes de boa pedra laurada, que ia tãto nõ chouj́a que home y podesse mollar o pe.”

And the streets were wide, in one side and the other, and were made with great ingenuity, and they were vaulted in the ceiling, and down they were paved with large squared stones, so that no matter how much it rained no one would wet his foot there

“Fiaba a seña Marica unha boa mazaroca de liño: mollaba nos lábeos os dous pormeiros dedos da man esquerda e tirando cara abaixo faguía un fío daquel manoxo de estrigas, mentras que ca dereita enredábaio no fuso, que bailaba de demoro.”

lady Mary was spinning a large spindleful of flax: she moistened the fist two finger of her left hand on her lips and, pulling down, she was making a thread of that handful of stricks, while with her right hand she was winding it in the spindle, which danced slowly

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