I’m noting down lots of new words in the book I’m reading but some seem too niche even to include. Like I’ve just come across “a ré” which can be a defender in a trial (feminine form of réu) but in the context I found it, it means “Espaço que se estende da popa até ao terço médio do navio” (https://dicionario.priberam.org/R%C3%A9) OK, well i know popa is the poop deck, but I couldn’t find Ré on any diagrams of ships. Anyway, after a lot of effort I found it corresponded roughly to what a British seaman would call the aft deck. Well, forgive me if I don’t spend much time committing that one to memory!
And then there’s “a cernelha”, the part at the back of a quadruped where the shoulder blades meet. I actually know the word for this in English because my daughter went through a horse phase. It’s caled the withers. Yeah, again, it seems unlikely I’ll need to know that one!
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