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Meaning of pancada | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
paŋˈkaða̝

Definitions

blow, stroke, hit

feminine

Examples

“O que non sinte a palabra, non sinte a pancada”

They who don't listen the word, won't feel the stroke

“Ano de LVIII, a IX dias de juyo, en Ourense, por ante Afonso Anrriques et Nuno d ' Ousende, procurador, deu querella que oje, este dito dia, trageendo él hua cárrega de uses por lo outeiro de Santa Deleyña, que sayran a él o alguasil e Fernán Aluares e outro seu conpoñeiro, omes do prouisor, et que o dito alguasil, por sy meesmo, lle dera fasta viinte paancadas con hun paao, das quaes ende mostrou enas costas tres paancás et duas enos braços et hua ena perna, e que o daua por qeixa.”

The year (14)58, 9 days of July, in Ourense, before Afonso Enríquez, and Nuno de Ousende, the Council's agent; he complained that today, while bringing a cartload of heather from St. Deleiña's hill, he was intercepted by the bailiff and Fernán Álvarez and another companion, men of the provisor, and that the aforementioned bailiff, by himself, stroke twenty blows on him with a stick; and of them he shew three strokes on the sides and two in the arms and one in the leg, and he gave this as a complaint

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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