didal

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English

Noun

didal (plural didals)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of triangular spade.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for didal”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin digitāle, from Latin digitālis (digital). Doublet of digital, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

Noun

didal m (plural didals)

  1. thimble
  2. fingercot, fingerstall
  3. (in the plural) foxglove, especially dwarf Spanish foxglove (Digitalis minor), a species endemic to the Balearic Islands
  4. acorn cup
  5. small glass

Derived terms

Further reading

Yogad

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish dedal (thimble).

Noun

didál

  1. thimble