Meaning of treu | Babel Free

Definitions

1. set of sails
   masculine
2. a square sail
   masculine
3. Equivalent to 'Canvas': A type of coarse cloth, woven from hemp, useful for making sails and tents or as a surface for paintings.

Equivalents

Examples

“Et cõ grã coyta que auía, metíose sobre mar, cõ grandes cõpañas, porlo yr buscar, et tãto singlarõ, a rremos et a treu, ata que chegarõ alý hu el iazía soterrado”

Sorrowful, he went into the sea with a large army, for searching for him, and they navigated for a long time, on oars and sails, until they arrived there where he was buried

“hũu estrenque d'esparto novo et hũu estrenque vello d'esparto, et con seu treu que son tres monetas et hũu papafigo et con todos los outros seus aparellos”

a new rope of esparto, and an old one also of esparto, with its set of sails, composed of three minor sails and a mainsail, with all the additional rigging

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