Citations:boca

English citations of boca

• 1850 October, “Paul Masterton's Adventures, Chapter XIII: El Rio Escondido”, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume 90, →OCLC, page 182:

  At this end of the shallow water, about two knots and a half from the boca of the river, there is a deep pool, in which a 'seventy-four' might float, and no soundings to be had; well, he lies in there under the lee of a mud wall which runs in along one side facing the mouth of the laguna.

Portuguese citations of boca and bocca

Noun: mouth (the end of a river out of which water flows into a larger body of water)

• 1826, Academia das ciências de Lisboa, Collecçao de noticias para a historia e geografia das naçoes ultramarinas, que vivem nos dominios portuguezes, ou lhes sao visinhas..., Typografia da mesma Academia, page 9:

  Deste canal lança o Amazonas pela terra dentro aquella porção de agoa, que junta com a referida do Akeky fórma o rio deste nome, que dá entrada para o' Amazonas pela bocca do Xingú.