pértega

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) pole (used in the sport of pole vaulting)
 * 2) mobile part of the flail tool used for threshing
 * 3) flail tool used for threshing
 * 4) outer pieces of the bed of a traditional Galician cart
 * 5) shaft, batten
 * 6) * 1418, Ángel Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 117:
 * por duas cargas de pertegas dous moravedis
 * for two loads of battens, two coins
 * 1) twig
 * 2) * 1390, José Luís Pensado Tomé (ed.), Os Miragres de Santiago. Madrid: C.S.I.C., page 4:
 * "gl"
 * "gl"

- et tragia ẽno pescoço hũa pertega de caruallo entorta