arpeu

• arpeo

Borrowed from Old French harpeau, from harper (“to grab”), from Proto-Germanic *harpǭ (“harp”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾpew/ [ˈaɾ.pew]
• Rhymes: -aɾpew
• Hyphenation: ar‧peu

arpeu m (plural arpeus)

1. (nautical) grapnel

   Synonym: risón

2. (nautical) hook
3. (nautical) grappling hook
   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53:

     con estes aparellos seguintes, conven a saber: tres ancoras et hũu arpeo de ferro con seus eixos et hũa gindaresa de fio de canavo

     with the following gear, that is: three anchors and one grappling hook of iron, with their windlasses, and a hawser made of hemp

   Synonym: grampín

• Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “arpeo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “arpeu”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “arpeu”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “arpeo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN