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piolo — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • peg noun A small wooden or metal pin used to fasten, hang, or mark something.
  • picket noun A person or group standing outside a workplace during a strike to protest and discourage others from entering.
  • round adjective Shaped like a circle or sphere, with no sharp corners.
  • rung noun A horizontal bar forming a step on a ladder, or the crossbar between chair legs.
  • stake noun A pointed piece of wood or metal driven into the ground as a marker or support.
  • stave noun One of the curved wooden strips fitted together to form the side of a barrel or cask.

Senses

piolo is used for these senses in English:

  • dowel A pin, or block, of wood or metal, fitting into holes in the abutting portions of two pieces, and being partly in one piece and partly in the other, to keep them in their proper relative position.
  • peg A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects.
  • picket A stake driven into the ground.
  • rung A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round.
  • stake A piece of wood or other material, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a marker or a support or stay.
  • stave One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

peg — full definition

  1. noun A small wooden or metal pin used to fasten, hang, or mark something.
  2. verb To fasten with a peg, or to fix a price or value at a set level.
  3. verb To throw something, especially a ball, often hard.

picket — full definition

  1. noun A person or group standing outside a workplace during a strike to protest and discourage others from entering.
  2. noun A pointed wooden or metal stake driven into the ground, as in a fence.
  3. verb To stand outside a workplace in protest, usually as part of a strike.

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