Meaning of trabuco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. trebuchet
   masculine
2. tribute, tax
   informal, masculine
3. a kind of blunderbuss
   masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Et os da eglleia fazian moyto mal cõ huũ trabuquo cõ que tirauã de çima da eglleia: lançaua a pedra fasta a Rrua do Camjño.”

And the ones in the church were causing a lot of damage with a trabuchet with which they shoot from the church's top: it was throwing the stones till the Rúa do Camiño street

“Salirán cando volvades, Para traervos en trunfo Con gaitas e con ferreñas, Todal as Mozas de rumbo. Veredes como se botan Todal as Vellas de bruzos Para darvos moitos bicos Por pés, por pernas, e muslos. Cada Escarapela vosa Dirán que val un escudo E para gardal a casa Tanto coma un bon trabuco.”

They'll come out on your return [from the war with the French] to bring you in triumph with bagpipes and jingles, all the girls along the way. You'll see how all the old ladies lie face down To give many kisses on your feet, legs and thighs. Each one of your cockades worths a shield, they'll say, and for guarding the house, as much as a good blunderbuss

“Libertounos de trabucos, / Dalcauelas, è de peytos,”

He freed us of tributes, charges and taxes

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