olotera
olotera noun: a traditional Mexican tool consisting of bound, shortened corncobs, against which ears of corn are scraped against to remove their kernels.
Noun
olotera (plural oloteras)
- A traditional Mexican tool consisting of bound, shortened corncobs, against which ears of corn are scraped against to remove their kernels.
- Timo sat on a log with the olotera between his legs.1960, William Madsen, The Virgin’s Children: Life in an Aztec Village Today, Austin: University of Texas Press
- The Otomi prefer to do it by scraping the ears against an olotera (fig. 8,c), a bunch of corncobs bound together1975, Leonardo Manrique C., “34. The Otomi”, in Ethnology (Handbook of Middle American Indians; 7 & 8), Austin: University of Texas Press, page 690
Forms of olotera
| plural | oloteras |
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Origin of olotera
Borrowed from Spanish olotera, from olote (“corncob”) + -era.
Questions about olotera
- What does olotera mean?
- Olotera means a traditional Mexican tool consisting of bound, shortened corncobs, against which ears of corn are scraped against to remove their kernels.
- What part of speech is olotera?
- Olotera is a noun.
- What is the plural of olotera?
- The plural of olotera is oloteras.
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