粵

大daai6纜laam6

simp大缆
daai6 laam6dà lǎn

English

  1. a hawser, a thick rope
  2. a thick, huge rope

粵語 — Cantonese

  1. 好粗大嘅，由好多條細繩絞成嘅繩

Examples

  • 扯大纜

    to play tug-of-war

  • 大纜都扯唔埋

    to imply that one thing is totally different from another; literally: one thing is so distant from another that they cannot be bound together even by a huge mooring-rope

Sources: cc-canto, rime-cantonese, words.hk

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