"esquirla" meaning in Spanish

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "esquirlas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "esquirla f (plural esquirlas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "es‧quir‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "the projectiles were bringing up shrapnel from his cuirass",
          "ref": "1921, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Las plumas del caburé",
          "text": "los proyectiles levantaban esquirlas de su coraza",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shrapnel"
      ],
      "id": "en-esquirla-es-noun-2fRFrIFd",
      "links": [
        [
          "shrapnel",
          "shrapnel"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "piece of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(piece of) shrapnel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 49 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "shards of gold",
          "text": "esquirlas de oro",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fragment; shard"
      ],
      "id": "en-esquirla-es-noun-vsNeIrcD",
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ],
        [
          "shard",
          "shard"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "8 49 43",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Afterwards, the bone or horn fragments were subjected to a surface regularization process, using a scraper.",
          "ref": "1994, Jorge Juan Eiroa, La prehistoria I",
          "text": "Después, las esquirlas de hueso o cuerno eran sometidas a un proceso de regularización de la superficie, mediante un raspador",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "The oriole lets out a dense cry from its throat, so musical that it sounds like a fragment of a nightingale's cry […]",
          "ref": "1914, José Ortega y Gasset, Arroyos y oropéndolas",
          "text": "La oropéndola da un denso grito de su garganta, tan musical que parece una esquirla arrancada al canto del ruiseñor[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fragment; glimmer; chink"
      ],
      "id": "en-esquirla-es-noun-fXGzRXLj",
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ],
        [
          "glimmer",
          "glimmer"
        ],
        [
          "chink",
          "chink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) fragment; glimmer; chink"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/esˈkiɾla/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[esˈkiɾ.la]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iɾla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "esquirla"
}

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  "categories": [
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iɾla",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iɾla/3 syllables",
    "Spanish 3-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "esquirlas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "esquirla f (plural esquirlas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "es‧quir‧la"
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "the projectiles were bringing up shrapnel from his cuirass",
          "ref": "1921, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Las plumas del caburé",
          "text": "los proyectiles levantaban esquirlas de su coraza",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "shrapnel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "shrapnel",
          "shrapnel"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "piece of",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(piece of) shrapnel"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "shards of gold",
          "text": "esquirlas de oro",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fragment; shard"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ],
        [
          "shard",
          "shard"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Spanish terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Afterwards, the bone or horn fragments were subjected to a surface regularization process, using a scraper.",
          "ref": "1994, Jorge Juan Eiroa, La prehistoria I",
          "text": "Después, las esquirlas de hueso o cuerno eran sometidas a un proceso de regularización de la superficie, mediante un raspador",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "The oriole lets out a dense cry from its throat, so musical that it sounds like a fragment of a nightingale's cry […]",
          "ref": "1914, José Ortega y Gasset, Arroyos y oropéndolas",
          "text": "La oropéndola da un denso grito de su garganta, tan musical que parece una esquirla arrancada al canto del ruiseñor[…]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fragment; glimmer; chink"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fragment",
          "fragment"
        ],
        [
          "glimmer",
          "glimmer"
        ],
        [
          "chink",
          "chink"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) fragment; glimmer; chink"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/esˈkiɾla/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[esˈkiɾ.la]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iɾla"
    }
  ],
  "word": "esquirla"
}