podadera

Spanish

Noun

podadera f (plural podaderas)

  1. billhook (tool used for pruning)

”, in El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, Primera parte:

Tenía en su casa una ama que pasaba de los cuarenta y una sobrina que no llegaba a los veinte, y un mozo de campo y plaza que así ensillaba el rocín como tomaba la podadera.
He had in his house a housekeeper past forty, a niece under twenty, and a lad for the field and market-place, who used to saddle the hack as well as handle the billhook.

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