Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Spanish liquid measure, equal to about half a gallon.
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Examples
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"I could drink another _azumbre_ and be none the worse for it."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various
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[39] Of these measures of capacity, the first set are for liquid measure: 4 copas = 1 cuartillo; 4 cuartillos = 1 azumbre; 8 azumbres =
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_Measures_: Measures of one _arroba_, half-_arroba, azumbre_ and
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"You must bleed the horse," I shouted; "take from him an azumbre of blood."
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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