Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A Mexican square measure, equal to about one tenth of an acre.
- n. A rope made of hair or of the fiber of the maguey.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Southwestern U. S. A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
Etymologies
- Spanish (Wiktionary)
Examples
“$375.00 Deposit Required Tack (Custom made saddles, bridles w / mecate)”
“Translating jala mecate is difficult, it blends the meaning of sycophant, unethical, perverse, and amoral flatterer in different shades that cannot be properly rendered in words, only under the pen of Zapata cartoon’s over at El Nacional.”
“The reason why I award today’s prize to Albornoz is, I could say, a recognition of his long and distinguished career as “jala mecate” of chavismo.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mecate’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
malm, marc, marl, maya, mazy, meet, mel, mew, mewling, mho, miasma, micaceous and 898 more...
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Having: C; m; e
Goodies pulled from a list I've compiled of most-every word having these letters in common — It's going take to take a long, long time to actually get through (and I may want to extend it lat...
chamber, chimney, compesce, imperch, ipom�ic, lambency, premier cru, recumbence, simnelcake, succumbence, umbeschew, almacle and 631 more...
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