escardilla
Spanish
[edit]Noun
[edit]escardilla f (plural escardillas)
- hoe
- Synonym: almocafre
- 2018 September 4, EL NACIONAL WEB, “De chamba y chambones”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Están desaprovechando sus mejores años lijando piedras al descampado, echando machete y jalando escardilla al sol, pero ese sacrificio no mueve ni un milímetro la economía.
- They are wasting their best years grinding stones in the field, swinging machetes and dragging hoes under the sun, but that sacrifice doesn't move the economy a millimeter.
Further reading
[edit]- “escardilla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10