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corrán — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • lune noun A crescent-shaped figure or object.
  • sickle noun A hand tool with a short handle and a curved blade, used for cutting grass or grain crops.
  • twill noun A pattern, characterised by diagonal ridges, created by the regular interlacing of threads of the warp and weft during weaving.

Senses

corrán is used for these senses in English:

  • lune (geometry) A concave figure formed by the intersection of the arcs of two circles on a plane, or on a sphere the intersection between two great semicircles.
  • sickle (agriculture) An implement having a semicircular blade and short handle, used for cutting long grass and cereal crops.

lune — full definition

  1. noun A crescent-shaped figure or object.
  2. noun A fit of madness or a period of wild, unreasonable behaviour.

sickle — full definition

  1. noun A hand tool with a short handle and a curved blade, used for cutting grass or grain crops.
  2. verb Of red blood cells: to distort into an abnormal crescent shape, as in sickle cell disease.

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