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escalar - in this context

English translation: salt the fish

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Portuguese term or phrase:escalar - in this context
English translation:salt the fish
Entered by: airmailrpl

08:03 Nov 5, 2009
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Portuguese term or phrase: escalar - in this context
Do you know any WORD/IDIOM in English that would have the same meaning as "escalar" in the following sentence?
Please not I am not looking for a translation of - salgar peixes.

many thanks in advance

http://www.jornalcanalaberto.com.br/index.php?pagina=materia...

Segundo Ruben Bianchi e Emiliano Bernardo, o Pingo, diretores do documentário, o trabalho enfocou as várias formas de pesca, a construção de uma moradia de pau-a-pique, o processo de “consertar” (eviscerar e descamar) e “escalar” (salgar) os peixes, o entralhamento (colocação de bóias e chumbo) de rede, e, ainda, a confecção de pequenas canoas-de-um-pau-só artesanais, uma das formas encontradas pela comunidade de obter alguma renda.
Marcella S.
New Zealand
Local time: 14:27
salt the fish
Explanation:
escalar - in this context..“escalar” (salgar) os peixes => alt the fish

How To Salt Fish - Autonopedia
HOW TO SALT FISH. By Daniel Casper. box of fish. I INTRODUCTION. A. Experience. Salting, one of the oldest methods of preserving food, is an art as well as ...
www.autonopedia.org.uk/food.../How_To_Salt_Fish.html -

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-11-05 13:20:27 GMT)
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escalar - in this context..“escalar” (salgar) os peixes => Salt the fish
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airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 23:27
Grading comment
Muito obrigada
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Summary of answers provided
5 +3salt the fish
airmailrpl
4 +1clean out guts and salt (fish)
Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral


  

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26 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
clean out guts and salt (fish)


Explanation:
Do Aurélio:
escalar3
[De es- + calar2.]
V. t. d.
1. Estripar e salgar (peixe).

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Note added at 1 hr (2009-11-05 09:32:30 GMT)
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or: gut and salt (fish)

Antonio Tomás Lessa do Amaral
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Marlene Curtis
5 hrs
  -> Marlene, thank you, regards
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +3
salt the fish


Explanation:
escalar - in this context..“escalar” (salgar) os peixes => alt the fish

How To Salt Fish - Autonopedia
HOW TO SALT FISH. By Daniel Casper. box of fish. I INTRODUCTION. A. Experience. Salting, one of the oldest methods of preserving food, is an art as well as ...
www.autonopedia.org.uk/food.../How_To_Salt_Fish.html -

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Note added at 5 hrs (2009-11-05 13:20:27 GMT)
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escalar - in this context..“escalar” (salgar) os peixes => Salt the fish

airmailrpl
Brazil
Local time: 23:27
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 64
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Muito obrigada

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agree  Claudio Mazotti
19 mins
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