The dictionary you have to know to be prepared on the day of the Christmas Draw

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Do you know what a trumpet is?

A

?

A postero?

Next Wednesday for a few hours words such as lyre, bass drum, umbrella or chapel, among many others, will be heard in all homes.

It is the vocabulary of the traditional

Draw

Due to the roots of the

, in December 2019 nine words from the lexicon of our Lottery were incorporated into the update of the 23rd edition of the Dictionary of the Spanish language (DLE), which were approved by the academies that make up the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (ASALE).

Thus, every December 22, on the occasion

, millions of people hear words such as wire, cup, lyre, umbrella, table, hopper and trumpet with a meaning that can be consulted in the academic dictionary.

But do we know what each thing is?

This is the necessary vocabulary to be prepared for the day of the Draw.

Wire

: In the lottery of some countries, each of the wires in which the balls of the winning numbers and those of their corresponding prizes are strung, once extracted from the bass drum.

Chapel

: In the Spanish lottery, the final model of a tenth or a ticket, in which a number of the draw has not yet been printed.

Cup

: In the lottery of some countries, a wide and transparent container, in the shape of a cup, where the ball that comes out of the bass drum falls after sliding down the trumpet.

Lyre

: In the lottery of some countries, a device made up of ten metal rods where the balls are arranged after counting and checking before inserting them into the drum.

In the Christmas Lottery in total there are 200 lire, each containing 500 balls.

Umbrella

: In the lottery of some countries, a circular structure from which the liras that contain all the balls of the numbers in play hang.

Postero, ra

: Person who was in charge of a lottery position.

Table

: In the lottery of some countries, exhibitor or board that shows the balls of the winning numbers and those of their corresponding prizes.

Hopper

: 1. Container or tank open at the bottom, generally in the shape of a truncated pyramid or inverted cone, which is used to dose the passage of something such as grains, coins, balls, fertilizers, liquids, etc.

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2. In the lottery of some countries, a transparent container in the shape of a funnel that is used to pass the balls with the numbers in play from the lira to the bass drum.

Trumpet

: In the lottery of some countries, funnel or channel through which the balls slide from the bass drum to the cup.

The popular terminology of the Christmas Lottery Draw

But there is also a

whose elements are also especially relevant.

Ticket

: Matches the series for a given number.

This raffle consists of 172 series, that is, 172 tickets are issued from each number.

Balls

: There are two well differentiated types of balls, those of numbers, which are 100,000, and the 1,807 corresponding to the prizes.

All are made of boxwood, having the same weight and size (3 grams and 18.8 mm.) And are laser engraved with numbers and letters.

Drums

: The

is celebrated by the traditional system in which two drums are used, one for prizes and the other for numbers.

Series: Set formed by a ticket of each number that participates in the draw.

In other words, each series consists of 100,000 banknotes.

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