Bolas: throwing weapon used by mounted cattlemen or hunters; long pliable rope or hide thong with heavy weights at either end, flung in such a manner that it enwraps and twists about the legs of the animal pursued.
Boldo: a small tree yielding the drug boldaina.
Boquete: a mountain pass.
Brasero: deep dish or bowl, usually made of copper or silver, filled with charcoal and heated for cooking purposes or to warm a room.
Butre: smallest wild bamboo.
Cajón: a gap in the high mountains.
Caliche: strata containing nitrate of soda.
Camanchaca: fog or mist over the northern plains.
Cancha: depot (for ores, North); gun-park; tennis-court.
Candeal: hard brown wheat of the southerly provinces.