con diez cañones por banda...

Question

que quiere decir banda en este ejemplo? un grupo?

Answer 1

Without a complete sentence, it's hard to know, but my guess is "10 cannons per troop."

Answer 2

It could be "gunwale"...

Answer 3

Ahhh, my friends. This is the start of a beautiful poem by José de Espronceda "The pirat's song", for which my bad translation (no rhimes) would be:

With ten cannons per side, wind on the back, full sail, does not cut the sea, but fly, a bergantín sailboat

Pirate ship that they call, due to his braveness, The Feared, on all seas known, fron end to far end

and so on...

Answer 4

Well, I just read that sentence in my spanish literature textbook and searched it, which is how i came across this. The footnote for the word "banda" in my book says "costado; lado", and when i searched "costado" here on spanishdict, it said that it could mean "side of a ship". So, that leads me to believe that this sentence means that there were 10 cannons on each side of the ship.

Which is what Carlos said. - samdie, MAR 22, 2010

Answer 5

Una banda (feminine) means group, like musical group, like u2 for example (among other meanings.. as I´m sure you know).

thought so. thanks. it just sounds odd. yep its cañones. - felagato, FEB 3, 2010