cabestrante

Spanish

Etymology

See the variant cabrestante; possibly from Occitan cabestran. See also cabestrar, cabestro.

Noun

cabestrante m (plural cabestrantes)

1. capstan

Further reading

• “cabestrante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28