Meaning of pértega | Babel Free

Definitions

1. pole (used in the sport of pole vaulting)
   feminine
2. mobile part of the flail (tool used for threshing)
   feminine
3. flail (tool used for threshing)
   feminine
4. outer pieces of the bed of a traditional Galician cart
   feminine
5. shaft, batten
   feminine
6. twig
   feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“por duas cargas de pertegas dous moravedis”

for two loads of battens, two coins

“começarõ afazer casas de madeyros mal labrados et tortos, quaes lles acaesçiam, et atados cõ vyncallos de caruallo torçidas et cõ outras pertegas, que nõ sabiam elles ajnda mays desta arte nẽ de carpentaria pera aquelo”

then they began to build wooden houses with badly carved crooked logs, as they found them, tied with straps made of twisted twigs of oak, and with other twigs, because they didn't knew enough of that art or of carpentry for doing that

“1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 4”

and he was wearing a twisted twig of oak around his neck

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