Meaning of roca | Babel Free

Definitions

1. spinning distaff (part of a spinning wheel from which fibre is drawn to be spun)
   feminine
2. rock
   feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“En cada terra seu uso, en cada roca seu fuso.”

In every country its customs, for every distaff its spindle.

“Polo fio d'unha roca ó estagamo seme bay, é cortafeira coideiche que acababa de finar.”

By the thread of a distaff my stomach is going away, and Wednesday I though that I had just died.

“Ó redor da lareira, na cuciña da casa máis chea do logar de Outeiro, xunta estaba a familia. O patrón sentado no escano cos pés fóra e por riba das zocas, quentábase, ó mesmo tempo que, cun forquito bandexaba os toxos, que dempois metía pra debaixo do caldeiro; a muller, sentada no chan, partía os cachelos pró caldo, ia herdeira, filla úneca daquel xuntoiro e xoia daquela casa, fiaba na roca os cerros, prá tea do ano.”

The family was reunited around the hearth, in the kitchen of the fullest house of the hamlet of Outeiro. The head of the household was sitting on the bench, his feet out and on the clogs, warming while he was shaking the furzes with a poke before placing them under the cauldron; the wife, sitting on the ground, was snapping the potatoes for the broth, and the heir, only child of that union and that home's jewel, was spinning the flax on the distaff, for the year's cloth.

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