estaca

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estaca
feminine noun
1stake (para clavar, delimitar); peg (de tienda de campaña)
  • le clavó una estaca en el corazón -> she drove a stake through his heart
2cudgel (garrote)

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estaca [es-tah’-cah]
noun
1A stake (poste), picket. (f)
2Slip of a tree put into the ground to grow. (f)
3Stick, cudgel, bludgeon. (f)
noun, plural
4Thowls or tholes. (Nautical)
verb
5TOLETES.
6Divisions or partitions made in mines.
7Clampnails, large nails used by carpenters.
  • Estar a la estaca -> (coll.) to live very poorly, to be indigent or oppressed with want

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estaca
sustantivo:femenino
1 (poste) stake; post; [de tienda de campaña] peg; (porra) cudgel; stick
plantar la estaca (vulgar) to have a crap; (vulgar)
2 (Agr) cutting
3 (Latinoamérica) (Minería) large mining claim; large mining concession
4 (And) (S. Cone) (espuela) spur
5
arrancar la estaca (México) to champ at the bit; strain at the leash
6 (Caribe) (indirecta) hint; (pulla) taunt

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