trapiche
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English
Noun
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
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: tra‧pi‧che
Noun
trapiche m (plural trapiches)
- a storehouse near a pier in which goods that will be shipped are kept
Spanish
Pronunciation
Noun
trapiche m (plural trapiches)
- press, crusher (machine)
- 2017 July 10, “Lumpen”, in El Nacional:
- 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
Further reading
- “trapiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28