Translation for "calafate" to english
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Parte de los tablones de cubierta se habían soltado, liberando el calafate, y en muchos lugares estaba untada con alquitrán.
Some of its deckboards had sprung up and freed the caulking, and in many places it was smeared with tar.
No obstante, aunque los oficiales lo lograran, nada podría ocultar las risas y las groseras bromas de los carpinteros, los calafates y la tripulación en general.» Una brigada de alegres carpinteros le hicieron moverse hacia barlovento para poder reparar un agujero de la cubierta que estaba tapado con lona alquitranada, pero le hablaron con delicadeza.
and even if they could, there would be no hiding the rustic merriment of the ship's company, the jolly carpenters, the facetious men with the caulking-irons.' A gang of these jolly carpenters moved him over to windward so that they could get at a gaping wound in the deck, hitherto covered with a tarpaulin - moved him quite gently.
- ¿Quién construye más fuerte el albañil, el calafate o el carpintero?
- Go to. - What is he that builds stronger than either the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter?
"¿construye más fuerte el albañil, el calafate o el carpintero?"
To't again, come. "Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?"
Te daré una carta autorizando las reparaciones de los calafates.
I’ll give you a letter to authorise repairs from the shipwrights.
El nuevo barco había sido objeto de mucho escarnio y Calcas, como Calafate y carpintero, había sido tratado con desdén, incluso con ira.
The new ship had been the subject of much mockery, and Khalkeus, as the shipwright, had been treated with scorn and even anger.
Archie, como todos le llamaban, era el segundo hijo de Elsie Maria Kingdon, hija de un calafate episcopaliano, y Elias Leach, hijo de un alfarero episcopaliano.
Archie, as everyone called him, was the second child born to Elsie Maria Kingdon, the daughter of an Episcopalian shipwright, and Elias Leach, the son of an Episcopalian potter.
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