Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabrestas
Literary usage of Cabrestas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"Let us search for the body ; if it is the first, we will save it for our meal
to-night ; if it is the latter, the main and tail will serve us for cabrestas. ..."
2. Adventures in Mexico by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton, Horace Kephart (1915)
"They had all their cabrestas or ropes round their necks, and trailing on the
ground, in order that they might be easily caught and tied when they had ..."
3. Adventures In Mexico and The Rocky Mountains by George Frederick Augustus Ruxton (1848)
"They had all their cabrestas or ropes round their necks, and trailing on the
ground, in order that they might be easily ..."
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