Portuguese | English |
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calha noun {f} | chute [chutes](trough or tube) gutter [gutters](duct or channel beneath the eaves) trough [troughs](a gutter under the eaves of a building) |
calhamaço noun {m} | tome [tomes](large or scholarly book, see also: doorstop) |
calhambeque noun {m} | beater [beaters](an automobile in poor operating condition) heap [heaps](colloquial: dilapidated place or vehicle) jalopy(old, dilapidated car) |
calhandra noun {f} | skylark [skylarks](small brown passerine bird) |
calhandra-cornuda noun {f} | horned lark(Eremophila alpestris) |
calhau noun | placeholder [placeholders](that which holds, denotes or reserves a place for something to come later) |
bacalhau noun {m} | cod [cods](marine fish of the family Gadidae) handshake [handshakes](grasping of hands by two people) salt cod(Cod that has been dried and salted) |
bacalhau polar noun {m} | Arctic cod(Arctogadus glacialis) |
chocalhada noun {f} | rattle [rattles](sound) |
chocalhar verb | clatter [clattered, clattering, clatters](To make a rattling noise) rattle [rattled, rattling, rattles](to create a sound by shaking) |
encalhada noun {f} | spinster [spinsters](unmarried woman) |
encalhar verb | beach(to run something aground on a beach) run aground(to be immobilized by shallow water) strand [stranded, stranding, strands](to run aground) |
vir a calhar verb | come in handy(to prove to be useful or helpful) |
óleo de fígado de bacalhau noun {m} | cod liver oil [cod liver oils](nutritional supplement) |