cabrestante
Spanish, noun/kabɾesˈtante/
cabrestante is spelled C-A-B-R-E-S-T-A-N-T-E (11 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish, the 110,969th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Cabrestante is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “capstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder used to hoist heavy weights)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos”.
What does cabrestante mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecapstan (vertical cleated drum or cylinder used to hoist heavy weights)
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Rodillo con un cable o una cuerda que sirve para arrastrar o desplazar objetos. 2. Máquina compuesta de una armazón fuerte y sólida de madera, en parte cilíndrica y en parte cónica, que gira sobre un eje vertical por medio de las barras o palancas aplicadas a su circunferencia en uno o más planos horizontales, y sirve para hacer grandes esfuerzos, envolviendo en el cuerpo de ella y con su giro el calabrote que actúa en aquellos.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of cabrestante
- cabrestantes plural
- cabestrante alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cabrestante?
- /kabɾesˈtante/
- [ka.β̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪.t̪e]
- [kaβ̞ɾesˈt̪ãn̪t̪e]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to cabrestante
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is cabrestante in Spanish?
cabrestante appears about once in every 9 million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).