balsa

balsa
feminine noun
1. raft (embarcación)
2. pond, pool (estanque)
  • ser una balsa de aceite (figurative) -> to be as calm as a millpond; (mar) to go smoothly (reunión)

balsa [bahl’-sah]
noun
1. Pool, lake. (f)
2. Raft of float for conveying persons across a river. (Nautical) (f)
3. Half a butt of wine. (Province; Provinicial) (f)
4. In oil-mills, the room where the oil is kept. (f)
  • Estar como una balsa de aceite -> to be as quiet as a pool of oil; spoken of a place or country, or of the sea

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