Translation for "alpende" to english

Alpende

noun

• tool shed
• lean-to

Translation examples

lean-to noun

Yo no quería levantarme, ni caminar, ni siquiera moverme, pero me sacaron a rastras del alpende y me obligaron a unirme a la fila.
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.

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.
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.

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.
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.

La galería de Jiz Rumoku era una amplia habitación única labrada en el tocón sinteado de lo que habría sido un enorme secuoya, y sus aposentos particulares estaban en un tosco alpende o colgadizo sobre la propia galería.
Jiz Rumoku’s gallery was a single large room carved out of the simmed stump of what would have been an enormous redwood tree, with her living quarters a rude lean-to atop it.

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.
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.