espolón

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espolón

masculine noun

1. spur (de ave)

2. buttress (architecture)

espolón [es-po-lone’]

noun

1. Spur, the sharp point on the legs of a cock (gallo). (m)

2. The acute angle of the pier of a stone bridge, to break the force of the current. (m)

3. Stay, prop. (Architecture) (m)

4. The ram of a man-of-war. (Nautical) (m)

5. Fender-beam, knee of the head, a curve which is put upon vessels which lack a cut water, in order to fit the bowsprit to it. (Nautical) (m)

6. Part of a causeway or dock which juts into the sea 7. (m)

7. Chilblain.

(Fort.) Kind of a salient angle.

espolón

1 (Zoología) [de gallo] spur; [de caballo] fetlock

2 (Geografía) spur of a mountain range; (of a mountain range)

3 (Náutica) (proa) stem; (para atacar) ram;

4 (malecón) sea wall; dike; (contrafuerte) buttress; [de puente] cutwater;

5 (paseo) promenade

6 (Med) chilblain

adjetivo

(And) (astuto) sharp; astute

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