Translation for "lean-to" to spanish
Lean-to
noun
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Translation examples
Each of us had his own sturdy lean-to.
Cada uno de nosotros tenía su propio y robusto colgadizo.
The Maywit kids helped make those lean-tos.
Los niños Maywit nos ayudaron a hacer los colgadizos.
            Clover also ran the school, which was the first lean-to.
Clover dirigía también la escuela, situada en el primer colgadizo.
The kids had crawled into a lean-to, where they hid and slept.
Los niños se habían metido bajo un colgadizo, donde se escondieron y durmieron.
Each aisle would have a sloping lean-to roof.
Cada una de las naves laterales tendría un tejado colgadizo en declive.
The lean-to at the side of the church had to be the priest’s house.
El colgadizo al lado de la iglesia debía ser la casa del sacerdote.
Against the walls were wooden lean-to huts, workshops and lodges for the craftsmen.
Contra los muros, había cabañas colgadizas de madera, y viviendas para los artesanos.
But I was afraid of what he might say about the praying tree and the lean-to school.
Pero temí lo que diría del árbol religioso y la escuela del colgadizo.
            "I'm not tired," Father said, as Jerry and I crawled into our lean-to.
—Yo no estoy cansado —dijo Padre cuando Jerry y yo nos metimos a gatas en nuestro colgadizo—.
But they worked together to build a lean-to, a windbreak to protect them from the night.
Pero unieron sus esfuerzos para levantar un colgadizo, algo que les protegiera del frío de la noche.
noun
I did not want to stand, or walk, or even move, but I was dragged from my lean-to and made to join the line.
Yo no quería levantarme, ni caminar, ni siquiera moverme, pero me sacaron a rastras del alpende y me obligaron a unirme a la fila.
He found the officers huddled around a fire in the cover of a lean-to, talking in low voices that betrayed their fatigue and dejection.
Encontró a los oficiales reunidos, en torno a un fuego, a cubierto de un alpende, parlamentando con voces graves que delataban su fatiga y su abatimiento.
One night, as we all lay under our lean-tos—there were no proper shelters in Narus—we heard the roar of cars and trucks and I knew we would soon be on the move again.
Una noche, mientras todos yacíamos en alpendes —en Narus no teníamos refugios propiamente dichos—, oímos el rugido de coches y camiones y supe que tardaríamos poco en volver a partir.
In lean-to sheds all along the side walls of the church, masons could be seen sculpting the stone blocks, with iron chisels and big wooden hammers, into the shapes that would be put together to form plinths, columns, capitals, shafts, buttresses, arches, windows, sills, pinnacles and parapets.
En alpendes a lo largo de los muros de la iglesia, podía verse a albañiles esculpiendo los bloques de piedra con cinceles de hierro y martillos de madera, dándoles las formas que una vez unidas formarían plintos, columnas, capiteles, fustes, contrafuertes, arcos, ventanas, remates, antepechos y parapetos.
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