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Wooden slats located perpendicularly on the beams and under thinner and wider boards in the construction of the roofs. For my land they call them cantiaos and the boards on which the slate or the tiles go they call them chilla. In some places they also say cabios and cabrios to the upper and lower crossbars of a window frame and to the upper of a door.
In Anglo-Saxon culture this figure existed until the early twentieth century. She was called without an eater and she used to be a beggar or marginal person that no one wanted to associate with until another died. Their activity consisted of eating and drinking some products (bread, beer) put in contact with the dead or dying.
Controversial symptom of cardiovascular disease described in 1973 by American pulmonologist Saunders T Frank. It is a transverse groove in the earlobe that many people develop especially with age. Analyzing the bust, found in Italica, of Emperor Hadrian, the commentator noted that the artist reflected this sign in his earlobe, from which he deduced that Hadrian probably died of heart problems.
From the Greek pro, before and kyon, dog, bright star of the constellation of Canis Minor, which appears before the star of the dog, Sirius or Sirius of Canis Major in the southern hemisphere of the sky. The Latins also called it Antecanis.
Among the English since the thirteenth century is counted thus the number 13. They also say long dozen and devils dozen. By a regulation on the preparation of bread, bakers gave consumers 13 rolls instead of 12 to cure their health. Around here we call her the friar's dozen, the docenica.
A docenic, that is, thirteen. A certain mendicant friar went to buy eggs on behalf of the abbot. For the abbot, half a dozen; for the prior a third and for him a quarter of a dozen. Total : one docenica .
In the Anglo-Saxon world it is the expression used by magicians in the processes of enchantment, bewitchment or prestidigitation, equivalent to our abracadabra, potagia magic or jamalají-jamalajá. According to some, it is a burlesque imitation of hoc est corpus meum, an expression used by Catholic priests in the consecration of the Mass to turn the bread into the body of Christ.
Character created in the 50s by the Catalan cartoonist Josep Escobar i Saliente, always hungry character, symbol of the Spain of hunger, black market and rationing in the dictatorship and post-war. Hence the saying to spend more hunger than Carpanta, to be hungry canine, to be hungrier than the dog of a gypsy, to be hungrier than God talent.
Anglicism. Football expression transcription of offside, offside, collected in rule 11 of the football regulations with many nuances of attack and defense strategy. In a metaphorical sense it defines any situation of little control, distraction or confusion with little or no attention.
Alistanism . Gorrino , pig , gurriato . Thus we collectively append the neighbors of a town close to mine. In my childhood we threw stones at each other in the line. We were called kites and storks. Now we are all part of the emptied Spain.
In my Alistana land this expression indicates that the child is no longer so child, that he is getting older and therefore no longer innocently in any tree pit. My aunt Vicenta reminded me a long time ago that her mother, that is, my grandmother laughed when she remembered a conversation with a neighbor who said: Milk, daughter, my Casimiro already on the wall. Meaning that he was already a full-fledged waiter. That I couldn't treat him like a child.
Name, transmitted by the Greek geographer and historian Strabo in book XI of his Geography, of a people with Western features, speakers of a homonymous Indo-European language, which archaeologists and anthropologists place in Central Asia west of China for almost two millennia BC.
Water . My fellow countrymen also say agüera and agueira and call the acequia or small channeling of rainwater in the valleys and troughs, on the banks of the river or in the orchards to irrigate. The term is also present in numerous place names such as Las Güeras, Las Llevagueiras, La Llavaguerica and La Llavaguerona.
Also swear in Hebrew. Cursing, throwing toads and snakes out of the mouth, blaspheming, swearing and swearing expressions, ranting. The origin of the expression was surely in the expulsion of Sefarad in 1492.
In addition to what the Dictionary defines as a door of the front of the old breeches and pants to do what is necessary without lowering the whole garment, for my Alistana land was a wooden door that closed a window of the pig courtship where they were fed without entering.
Verbal locution. Reacting in an unexpected and abrupt way to something. But if the reaction is negative with an expression of rage, anger or bad mood then it gives the vein, perhaps because in situations of excitement and anger the veins of the neck swell.
From the Greek verb treo , tremble with fear , be cowardly . The cowards, Spartan soldiers accused of atimia for having fled combat or disobeyed military orders. Not having demonstrated their andreia, the Spartan courage, they lost their citizenship rights and had to shave only half of their faces. They could not marry and were despised by everyone.
Also jollo , joleo , joio , lolio , yoyo , eye grass , tares , scarecrows , false wheat , ballico , lolium temulentum . Forage weed of the wheat-like grass family in its early days, sometimes parasitized by ergot fungus in the ear.
For my land they said so to the wine that they used to make with such acidity that, to whom I was not accustomed, I forced him to wink one eye or both. Also in plural, winks, to whom for some defect or problem, winked or coined the eyes frequently.
Mineral composed of aluminum phosphate usually bluish green, as the anonymous companion tells us, used since prehistory as an ornament in the elaboration of beads and pendants. In my Alistana land in Palazuelo de las Cuevas there are deposits of variscite in the peak of Las Cercas and in the hill La Cogolla and Los Fornicios.