"Horse" a a "barrera"
What is a "horse"? I don't know any other name in the English, much less in Spanish. Ah, I mean those things, mostly wooden, that have four "legs" and a transversal piece that are used to close off streets (under repair), or as supports for a makeshift table for workmen (carpenters, roofers, etc.). As kids, we use to use them for balance beams.
I can't find it in a dictionary por I don't know the correct name. They are ubiquitous. My street is now blocked off with "horses" because the storm sewers cannot handle the snow-melt flow. Hmm. That's another word: "snow-melt".
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Although caballete is a word I usually associate with easel, I have seen it to mean sawhorse- I have also seen burro, for what it is worth.
Yeah. Now, "Caballete" makes sense considering the pictures proffered. SD and the DRAE did not concur with my brain, limited as it may be. "Caballete" was the first thing that came up, but I could not of sense make anything of it.
Words are cool, and they mean things. I love SD.
Wordreference.com gives "caballete." I think "borriquete" is another possibility, although it seems that it is also the name of a fish, as that is what comes up most in an image search.
Borriquete:
