horca — meaning in English
Spanish → English · translate English → Spanish instead
English meaning
- fork noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
- gallows noun A wooden frame used for hanging condemned prisoners.
- pitchfork noun A long-handled farm tool with sharp tines, used for lifting and moving hay or straw.
- scaffold noun A temporary framework of poles or tubes that workers stand on to reach high parts of a building.
Senses
horca is used for these senses in English:
- fork Any of several types of pronged (tined) tools (physical tools), as follows:
- gallows A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging. [from 1300s]
- gibbet An upright post with a crosspiece used for execution and subsequent public display.
- scaffold An elevated platform on which a criminal is executed.
fork — full definition
- noun A pronged utensil used for eating or serving food.
- noun A point where a road, path, or river splits into two directions.
- noun A separate version of a software project or dataset created from an existing one.
- verb To split into two or more branches or directions.