"iron" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Presently the ship anchored and landed ten slaves, blackamoors, bearing iron hoes and baskets, who walked on till they reached the middle of the island.
- A moment later, the youngest of the men in the field, probably an older brother, charged into the yard, shouting and waving an iron hoe.
- Other artefacts include soapstone figurines, pottery, iron gongs, elaborately worked ivory, iron and copper wire, iron hoes, bronze spearheads, copper ingots and crucibles, and gold beads, bracelets, pendants and sheaths.
- Once Arab come there and I see the priests give him weight in gold for iron hoe, though afterwards they murder him, not for the gold, but lest he go away and tell their secret.
- Through most of the nineteenth century, wooden farming tools (hoes, digging sticks, and knives) continued to be used, although they were progressively being replaced by iron hoes, cutlasses, and knives made by local blacksmiths and, subsequently, imported.
- The Kavirondo are essentially an agricultural people: both men and women work in the fields with large iron hoes.
- Having to be imported from England, they were rare amongst colonial small farmers, many of whom made do with nothing more than wooden dibbles and spades, with an ax and perhaps an iron hoe for ground-clearing.
- The Ashanti prepared the fields by burning before the onset of the rainy season and cultivated with an iron hoe.
- When the girl's menstruation is disclosed, the mother announces the good news in the village beating an iron hoe with a stone.
- They traded salt for iron hoes made in the Luba heartland, and wore raphia cloth that came by way of the Luba from the Songye people further to the west.
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