trinquete
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from French trinquet.
Noun edit
trinquete m (plural trinquetes)
- (nautical) foremast
- 1877, Benito Pérez Galdós, Gloria:
- Tenía dos vergas en el palo de trinquete, y en el de mesana que era pequeñísimo flotaba un jirón rojo
- It had two yards on the foresail mast, and on that of the tiny mizzen was flapping a ripped rag.
- (nautical) foresail
- (mechanics) ratchet
- (mechanics) ratchet wheel and pawl (entire mechanism)
- buckle
- a variety of a Basque pelota court
- (Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, colloquial) strong person, titan, powerhouse, beast
Derived terms edit
- estar hecho un trinquete
- rueda de trinquete (“ratchet wheel”)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
trinquete m (plural trinquetes)
- a kind of hook
- (Mexico, colloquial) rip-off, ripoff
- (Mexico, colloquial) bribe or bribery, shady deal, corrupt affair (usually of a public official)
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “trinquete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014