varas

Sufficient space is left between these strips to accommodate sets of double (twin) maize rows with two "varas"

Chapter 8 1981

¿Se elevará el precio del papel bond y con ello también la de los libros?! vaya si nos gusta meternos en camisas de once varas!

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My eyes wander up two entries, skipping over the prefixes vari- and vario- (as in variometer) to the delightful word, vara n AmerSp. fr Span., pole, fr L., forked pole, fr fem of varas bent, bow-legged (1831) : a Texas unit of length equal to 33.33 inches (84.66 centimeters).

Varia The Daily Growler 2006

These ranged from varas (30-35 inches) to statute leagues (2⅛ miles).

Shadow of the Sentinel WARREN GETLER 2003

(Central America) 1 ACRE = 4000 sq. meters = 4840 sq. yards = 43,560 sq.ft. = 0.4 hectares = 0.58 manzanas (Central America) 1 MANZANA (Central America) = 10,000 sq. varas = 7000 sq. meters

Chapter 12 1981

The plate said: “The Bull ‘Mariposa’ of the Duke of Veragua, which accepted 9 varas for 7 caballos, and caused the death of Antonio Garcia, Novillero, April 27, 1909.”

The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953

The squares are divided into lots of from 16 1/2 varas (the Spanish yard of 33 1/3 inches) front and 50 deep, to 100 varas square.

California, 1849-1913; or, the rambling sketches and experiences of sixty-four years' residence in that state Lell Hawley Woolley

Washington A. Bartlett, its first alcalde, had caused it to be surveyed and laid out into blocks and lots, which were being sold at sixteen dollars a lot of fifty vuras square; the understanding being that no single person could purchase of the alcalde more than one in-lot of fifty varas, and one out-lot of a hundred varas.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

No deseo buscarme molestias ni meterme en camisa de once varas

Pitman's Commercial Spanish Grammar (2nd ed.) C. A. Toledano

In order that the precise time of sowing and harvesting might be known, and that nothing might be lost, the Inca caused four poles to be set up on a high mountain to the east of Cuzco, about two _varas_ apart, on the heads of which there were holes, by which the sun entered, in the manner of a watch or astrolabe.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa