boleadora
Letters
9 characters
Language
Spanish
word origin
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boleadora is aSpanishnoun. It means: Arma arrojadiza formada por tres piedras redondas forradas en cuero y atadas a un centro común con fuertes sogas. Se emplea tomando la más pequeña, llamada manija, y haciendo girar sobre la cabeza ... Pronounced [boleaˈð̞oɾa].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | boleadora |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [boleaˈð̞oɾa] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for boleadora is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [boleaˈð̞oɾa]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for boleadora in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Spanish patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is boleadora, spelled B-O-L-E-A-D-O-R-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Arma arrojadiza formada por tres piedras redondas forradas en cuero y atadas a un centro común con fuertes sogas. Se emplea tomando la más pequeña, llamada manija, y haciendo girar sobre la cabeza las otras dos, que se despiden a las patas del animal que se quiere enredar. Era un arma de caza y combate usual entre los indígenas de la Patagonia y las Pampas y fue adoptada posteriormente por los gauchos.
- 2Por analogía, arma para lanzar proyectiles formada por un trozo cóncavo de cuero o goma y que se hace girar sosteniéndolo con dos cuerdas. La piedra se libera mediante un movimiento especial del brazo y la muñeca, cuanda haya alcanzado el suficiente impulso para causar daño en la presa o el enemigo que se desea golpear.
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