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parpelina de coste

13:30 Aug 17, 2009

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Social Sciences - History

Spanish term or phrase: parpelina de coste

Here is the context:

Quemaron altares laterales empezando por el de Nuestra Señora del Carmen, decapitando la imagen y atravesando, los iconoclastas, a la imagen de San Luis, con una parpelina de coste.

It's from a short excerpt describing the attack on a church during Tragic Week. Googling I have found parpelina as an iron rod, but I would be very grateful if anyone could clarify or confirm it. Thanks!

ganzinblau KudoZ activity Questions: 28 (7 open) Answers: 5 Spain
Local time: 11:52

Summary of answers provided

iron chisel

Jenni Lukac

Summary of reference entries provided

iron chisel

elsumerio

Answers

2 hrs confidence:

iron chisel

Explanation:
You can have a look at a parpelina in the tool website: http://www.reydoz.com/forja/pataca.htm. The site's translation for "parpelina y pistolete", listed together, is " Hexagonal releasing bars" but I haven't found any back-up for that translation elsewhere. What is pictured is clearly a chisel and I did find many sites that show the same picture labelled as chisel. The phrase below notes that both (iron) chisels and iron rods are used for this type of vandalism, if you are more comfortable with the references to "barra" that you have seen. "Evidence found on the sphinx\'s face suggests that nose and mouth were attacked with chisels or prized off using long iron rods. ..." http://www.egyptologyonline.com/tony's_tour_sphinx.htm

Jenni Lukac
Spain
Local time: 11:52
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English
PRO pts in category: 8

Reference comments

6 days peer agreement (net): +1

Reference: iron chisel

Reference information:
I got the idea from the page you submitted http://www.reydoz.com/forja/pataca.htm where it says: hexagonal releasing bars. I thought that "releasing" referred to "opening", a concept that was reinforced by the Frech version: Levieurs hexagonaux de decofrage; where "décoffrer" means desencofrar, desencajonar.

Reference: http://www.wordreference.com/fres/décoffrer

elsumerio
Spain
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Spanish