Meaning of caverna | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a hollow, cavity, cave, cavern, grotto, hole
   declension-1, feminine
2. a vault, chamber, cleft of heaven
   declension-1, feminine
3. a hold (cargo compartment of a ship)
   declension-1, feminine
4. bodily orifice
   declension-1, euphemistic, feminine, vulgar

Equivalents

Examples

“striduntque cauernis / stricturae Chalybum et fornacibus ignis anhelat”

Chalybian ores hiss in the caverns, and from the furnace mouths puff the hot-panting fires

“Vae rubeo draconi; nam exterminatio eius festinat. Cavernas ipsius occupabit albus draco, qui Saxones quos invitasti significat.”

Woe to the red dragon; for his doom hastens. The white dragon, which represents the Saxons whom you invited, will seize his caves.

“Crispa tamen cunctas exercet corpore in uno: deglubit, fellat, molitur per utramque cavernam, ne quid inexpertum frustra moritura relinquat.”

Crispa, however, practises them all with one body: she masturbates, fellates, and is worked at either hole, lest she should die in vain leaving anything untried.

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