caravilla

• cavilla, cravilla

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese cravilla (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned term derived from Latin clavicula (“little key”). Doublet of chavella and clavícula. Compare Portuguese cravelha and Spanish clavija.

• IPA^(key): /kaɾaˈβiʎa̝/

caravilla f (plural caravillas)

1. hook bolt; latch

   Fun ó muiño d'abaixo, e volvín polo d'arriba; o d'abaixo ten ferrollo, o d'arriba caravilla. (folk song)

   I went to the watermill below, I came back by the one above; the one below has a bolt, and the one above a latch.

   Synonyms: charnela, martabela, pecho, tarabelo

2. (music) peg
   • 1807, anonymous, Primeiro diálogo dos esterqueiros:

     outros contaban que Beja

     lle apretara as carabillas.

     Esto ben podrà ser certo,

     p[o]rq[u]e cando este Señor

     lle berraba, el tembraba,

     é aposto eu que tiña

     ó ollo do cu tan cerrado,

     que era imposible coupese

     un grau de millo p[o]r el;

     others told that Beja

     had tightened his pegs.

     This is probably true,

     because when this lord

     was shouting him, he was trembling

     and I bet that

     his asshole was so tight

     that it was not possible that

     a corn grain entered in it

3. (carpentry) peg
   • 1418, A. Rodríguez González (ed.), Libro do Concello de Santiago (1416-1422). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 117:

     destes por nove cravillas para as traves viinte moravedis

     You gave, for nine pegs for the beans, twenty maravedis

   Synonyms: chavella, cuña, torno

   1. peg under the bed of the cart used for tying and securing the load with ropes

      Synonyms: brión, veo

   2. one of several pegs which fasten the wheels to the axe in a traditional Galician cart

      Synonym: entrouso

• chave
• chavella

• “cravilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “cravilla” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “caravilla” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “caravilla” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “caravilla” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.