Translation for "enclavijar" to english
Enclavijar
verb
Translation examples
verb
El no tuvo que pensarla: enclavijar.
He did not have to think about it: pegging in.
Aprendió a enclavijar piezas de roble verde para que al secarse encajaran a la perfección; y aprendió bien, ya que el invierno previo a las pruebas de Saban, Galeth le encargó la tarea de poner una nueva techumbre a la cabaña donde dormía Derrewyn.
He learned how to peg green oak so that it shrank into place, and he learned well, for in the winter before Saban's ordeals Galeth trusted him to raise a new roof on the hut where Derrewyn slept.
Sin embargo, poco antes de su muerte le preguntaron en una entrevista de prensa si hubiera querido escribir una novela, y contestó que había desistido cuando le hice la consulta sobre el verbo enclavijar porque entonces descubrió que el libro que yo estaba escribiendo era el mismo que él pensaba escribir.
But not long before his death he was asked in a newspaper interview if he had ever wanted to write a novel, and he answered that he had but gave it up when I asked him about the verb pegging in, because he realized then that the book I was writing was the same one he had planned to write.
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