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This barber was well-armed, too, owning several guns (una escopeta y un arcabus) and a sword.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
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Thus then we set out, ourlong-legged guard striding ahead, with his escopeta on his shoulder, Manuel and Mateo on each side of the tartana, and the old invalids behind.
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Thus then we set out, ourlong-legged guard striding ahead, with his escopeta on his shoulder, Manuel and Mateo on each side of the tartana, and the old invalids behind.
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I remember those few days chiefly by having lost my pants, and run up against a tigre, armed with an escopeta of the common "trade" variety, a shot-gun which had once had two barrels.
Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure
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One of them, a very old man, with a long lance which he carried across his saddlebow, and an old rusty bell-mouthed escopeta, attached himself particularly to me, riding by my side, and pointing out the bad points-the mal puntos -- whence the
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At one side of the living-room was a wide, open fireplace, and here, above the mantel-shelf, hung the old Mexican _escopeta_, or cavalry musket, which Dan intended to take along on his expedition to the spot where Ralph had brought down the deer.
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_Parrón_ se apeó muy despacio, descolgó su escopeta de dos cañones, y, apuntando a sus camaradas, dijo:
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Cojo la escopeta; rompo el hielo que obstruye la entrada de esta gruta, y salgo ....
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¡Siquiera [112-2] esos crueles me han dejado una escopeta ... «_por si quería_ [112-3] _suicidarme
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This last exclamation was intended to point out to Pepe that his suggestion, even though a wise one, could not have been carried out, as the horseman was not going to pass within range of either rifle or escopeta.
illogicaljoker commented on the word escopeta
Spanish for "shotgun."
June 10, 2009
Gammerstang commented on the word escopeta
Shotgun
September 10, 2017