barloa
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French par lof "through the windward side," from Middle Dutch loef (“windward side”).
Noun edit
barloa f (plural barloas)
- a thick cable used to fasten an anchored ship to a wharf; hawser
Descendants edit
- → Portuguese: balroa
Further reading edit
- “barloa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014