cureña

Uncertain. From older curueña, probably from an alteration of Latin columna (compare Old Occitan coronna, Milanese corogna), but probably influenced by cuero (as the carriages of crossbows were originally made of this material).^[1] Compare columna, which may be a doublet.

cureña f (plural cureñas)

1. carriage (of gun)
   • 1926, Roberto Arlt, “Los ladrones”, in El juguete rabioso:

     Después de romper la envoltura, desbasté el bloque con una lima gruesa, fijando al cañón por medio de sunchos de hojalata en una cureña fabricada con las tablas más gruesas de un cajón de kerosene.

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• “cureña”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28