olla
a pot, especially an earthen pot for holding water, cooking, etc.
a stew.
Other definitions for OLLA (2 of 2)
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How to use olla in a sentence
Just outside the town-house, under a thatched shelter, a group of old women were cooking atole in great ollas until a late hour.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick StarrWhen worked into a stiff paste, it is built by hand into great ollas and plates, one and a half or two feet in diameter.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick StarrThese ollas we saw at many houses, and sometimes they were lashed to carts, plainly for bringing water from the stream.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick StarrWhen delivered to the customer, it was emptied into ollas, or urn-shaped vessels, made from burned clay or terra cotta.
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 | Harris NewmarkFilters were not in use, in consequence of which fastidious people washed out their ollas very frequently.
Sixty Years in Southern California 1853-1913 | Harris Newmark
British Dictionary definitions for olla
/ (ˈɒlə, Spanish ˈoʎa) /
a cooking pot
short for olla podrida
Origin of olla
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