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bestia de carga



Definitions

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bestia de carga
     1. n-f. a beast of burden
Analysis
Bestia
     1. Proper noun. (biblical) Beast (a figure in the Book of Revelation)
     2. n-f. beast
     3. n-f. animal
     4. n. (pejorative) brute (person who acts stupidly)
de
     1. prep. of; 's; (used after the thing owned and before the owner)
           Constitución española de 1812 - Spanish constitution of 1812
           la cola del perro - the dog’s tail
     2. prep. from (with the source or provenance of or at)
           Soy de España. - I’m from Spain.
carga
     1. n-f. load
     2. n-f. burden
     3. n-f. cargo
     4. n-f. charge
     5. n-f. (historical) carga (a traditional unit of dry measure equivalent to about 222 L)
     cargar
          1. v. to load (to put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage))
                Los estibadores se negaron a cargar el barco. - The dock workers refused to load the ship.
          2. v. to load (to fill (a firearm or artillery) with munition)
                Apreté el gatillo, pero no pasó nada. Me había olvidado de cargar el arma. - I pulled the trigger, but nothing happened. I had forgotten to load the gun.
          3. v. to load (to insert (an item or items) into an apparatus so as to ready it for operation, such as a reel of film into a camera, sheets of paper into a printer etc)



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