(n.) = horn ; antler.
Ex: She situates the vessels in the context of Icelandic carving traditions in horn, bone, and walrus ivory = Ella sitúa las vasijas en el contexto de la tradición islandesa de la escultura en astas de cuernos, huesos y marfil de morsa.
Ex: She uses alder bark for dye, whale sinew for thread, sealskin for trim, a tough piece of hide for a thimble, a sharpened ground-squirrel leg bone for a needle, and an awl made from moose antler.
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* a media asta = at half-mast ; at half staff.
* asta de bandera = flagpole ; flagstaff.

(n.) = shaft.
Ex: Christ bears the cross on his shoulder at the head of a long shaft supported by a male prisoner fettered at the legs and a mendicant friar.

(n.) = kern ; stress.
Ex: Indeed, the Clarendon Press kept a Napier double platen machine at work until 1950 for the sake of its gentleness with the delicate kerns of Fell italic.
Ex: For the first time the stress was uncompromisingly vertical, while the italic was intended to be a mechanically sloped roman, quite unconnected with calligraphy.
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* asta ascendente = ascender.
* asta descendente = descender.
* asta uniforme = vertical stress.

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asta

nf. spear; pole; shaft; horn

adj. half mast, halfway down from the top of a mast (of a flag)

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