barloa
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Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French par lof "through the windward side," from Middle Dutch loef (“windward side”).
Noun[edit]
barloa f (plural barloas)
- a thick cable used to fasten an anchored ship to a wharf; hawser
Descendants[edit]
- → Portuguese: balroa
Further reading[edit]
- “barloa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014