CODÓN Word whose original meaning, quince, and shape seem to be originating in Aragon despite those who say it is generated in the Catalan language: codoñ in chapurriau and codony in Catalan for the same meaning and the same pronunciation [ko?? on?] ) . In the Castilian provinces of Segovia, Ávila and Valladolid (perhaps in the southwest of Burgos, south of Palencia, southeast of Salamanca, northwest of Madrid and northwest corner of Guadalajara, without prejudice to other points not collected) receive this name the irregular or rolled edges by similarity with the size and shape of the quinces without this, quince, is its meaning in Castilian, although it seems that the Aragonese meaning was known in pre-terito times, which would give rise to the metonymy of naming these stones by the name of the fruit due to the resemblance of their forms. They were used to pave, with a seat of dry mortar to the sand, the coarse floor of the enclosures and stables on which a bed of straw was thrown so that the cattle and the caba-llerías did not aspeasen and kept more or less dry the hooves and the hooves shoeed or unburied, since it is permeable to the droppings and urination of the animals and is easily swept. Sometimes they were alone in the same way, but without a straw bed, the steps and yards of cattle of the work houses and the pens of these animals. ( See ENCODONAR / ACDONAR . )
