astilla

astilla
feminine noun
1. splinter
  • hacer astillas (figurative) -> to smash to smithereens

astilla [as-teel’-lyah]
noun
1. Chip of wood, splinter of timber. (f)
  • Hacer algo astillas -> to smash something into little pieces
2. Reed or comb of a loom. (Obsolete) (f)
3. the dead rising of the floor-timbers of a ship. (Nautical) (f)
  • De tal palo -> tal astilla, or astilla del mismo palo, a chip of the same block
  • Sacar astilla -> to profit by a thing

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