trapiche

trapiche (plural trapiches)

1. A mill made of wooden rollers used to extract juice from fruit, originally olives, or from sugar cane.
2. A star-shaped pattern of inclusions sometimes found in gemstones.

• Hyphenation: tra‧pi‧che

trapiche m (plural trapiches)

1. a storehouse near a pier in which goods that will be shipped are kept

• IPA^(key): /tɾaˈpit͡ʃe/ [t̪ɾaˈpi.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -itʃe
• Syllabification: tra‧pi‧che

trapiche m (plural trapiches)

1. press, crusher (machine)
   • 2017 July 10, “Lumpen”, in El Nacional‎:

     Son, invariablemente asesinados, neutralizados, molidos en trapiches de aparataje bochornosos por líderes celosos y por sucedáneos indignos.

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• “trapiche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014