Meaning of navalla | Babel Free

Definitions

1. razor
   feminine
2. pocketknife
   feminine
3. razor shell (Ensis ensis, Ensis magnus)
   feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“Et tragíã seus escudos enbraçados et suas lanças ẽnas mãos, et moytos deles tragíã hũas azcũas grãdes et anchas de açeyro, linpas et cortadores cõmo nauallas”

They brought their shields on, and their spears in their hands, and many of them brought large and wide javelins of steel, clean and cutting as razors

“Dimpois de comer dúas cuncas de caldo, deitouse na cama, sacou da faltrica do chaleque dous cigarros e unha navalla e liando un pito, púxose a fumegar polas ventas das narices, o mesmo có tren.”

After eating two bowls of broth he lay down on the bed; he took two cigars and a pocketknife from the vest's pocket and, rolling a cigarette, began to throw smoke by the nostrils, not unlike a train.

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