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