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Meaning of pedrada | Babel Free

Noun feminine CEFR B1
[peˈðɾaðɐ]

Definitions

  1. a blow with a pebble
    feminine
  2. stone's throw (short distance)
    feminine
  3. insult
    feminine, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“que seyron do dito castello os ditos tres omens e aderençaran a él por lo matar, dentro na dita vyña, e hun deles le puxara hua seta por lo matar, e quando vyra a balesta armada, que fogira por la vyña e foron pus él por llo matar, et de feyto o mataran con a dita seeta, senón Deus que o quyso gardar, e como le remesaran a dita seta, que le remesaran hua pedra e que le deran con ela ena caueça, a qual firyda logo él mostrou ó dito procurador, e como le puxaran a dita seta, e le deran a dita pedrada”

that said three men left the castle and came towards him for killing him, inside that vineyard, and one of them took an arrow, and when he saw the crossbow armed he ran away, but they came after him for killing him, and actually they would have killed him with that arrow if not because God wanted to protect him, and as they threw that arrow, they also threw a stone which hit him in the head, and said wound he later showed to the procurer, and how they threw that arrow and hit said blow with a stone

CEFR level

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

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