escaravellar

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Galician

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Etymology

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Probably from escarvar.

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Verb

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escaravellar (first-person singular present escaravello, first-person singular preterite escaravellei, past participle escaravellado)

  1. to dig superficially; to turn over the ground
    Synonyms: escarvar, escavichar
    Escaravellou o galo, e descubriu o coitelo para matalo. (proverb)The rooster dug and found the knife which killed it.
    • 1862, Manuel Magariños, Ferro-carril Compostelano:
      Os meus Seores traballaron con tan donoso amorío, dempois que se esperguisaron polo tempo mal perdido; tanto afincaron a cousa, con tal xeito e con tal brío; puxeron o chan da terra das malas herbas tan limpo, e tan esgaravellado, tan revirado e espelido, que ao fin veu a semente! ¡ai, qué semente, veciños! Por eso arrigou aa présa sin deixar tempo a un suspiro, aínda ben non lle tocou a semente ao chan moído
      My gentlemen worked with the most jaunty love, after they had stretched out because of the wasted time; so much they struggled with the thing, with such expertise and such vigour; they made the ground of the earth so clean of weeds, and so dug up, and so upturned and spongy, that at the end the seed came! And what a seed, my neighbors! That's why it grew hastily, giving no time to a sigh, when the seed had barely touched the milled soil
  2. to poke
    Synonym: furgar

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