chulipa
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From English sleeper in railway sleeper.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
chulipa f (plural chulipas)
- (dated, Portugal) railway sleeper or railroad tie (piece of timber laid crossways to and supporting the rails of a railroad)
- 1959, Aquilino Ribeiro, Filhas da Babilónia, Livrarias Aillaud & Bertrand, page 89:
- O comboio vai cauteloso por um troço da via em reparação, tropeando nos railhes com a ligeireza folgada dum menino a saltar de chulipa em chulipa.
- The train goes carefully through a part of the railway being repaired, stumbling on the rails with the swiftness of a boy jumping from sleeper to sleeper.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)