Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
arrastre .
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Examples
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To build an arastra, a circular depression ten or twelve feet wide and a foot or more deep is made in the ground.
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The ore is thrown into the arastra, and water is admitted,
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He uses bullocks on an arastra that turns over a big wheel with a chain of buckets.
The Critic in the Orient George Hamlin Fitch 1888
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