trapiche
English edit
Noun edit
trapiche (plural trapiches)
- A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane.
- A star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: tra‧pi‧che
Noun edit
trapiche m (plural trapiches)
- a storehouse near a pier in which goods that will be shipped are kept
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
trapiche m (plural trapiches)
- press, crusher (machine)
- 2017 July 10, “Lumpen”, in El Nacional[1]:
- Son, invariablemente asesinados, neutralizados, molidos en trapiches de aparataje bochornosos por líderes celosos y por sucedáneos indignos.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “trapiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014