Meaning of polbo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. octopus
   masculine
2. Equivalent to 'Octopus': Any of several marine molluscs of the order Octopoda, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid and...

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“duzeas de puluos”

dozens of octopuses

“Iten que se venda o pescado en esta maneira: a libra dos sacadores et das sollas et dos bodiõos, dos polvos et das fanequas et das rayas et das langostas et das sibias et das luras a tres dineiros cada libra Item, they should sell the captured fish in this way: the pound of sacadores [?], of plaices, of Baillon's wrasses, of octopuses, of poutings, of stingrays, of lobsters, of cuttlefish and of squids, three diñeiros each pound”

“abedes de dar et pagar a nos et a ho dito noso monesterio et a nosos soçesores huna liaça de pulpus, mays quatro pescadas por día de Natal, en quada hun anno”

you should give and pay to us and to our monastery and to our successors, a liaza [=eighteen dry tied octopuses] of octopuses and four hakes by Christmas day, each year

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