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Vara  n.  A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.





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... made at all. When was improvised an alcalde after the Mexican fashion, and two boards of aldermen were established after the New York fashion, and the high officials saw that they could now and then pick up a twenty-five-dollar fee for deeding a fifty vara lot, if so be they had on hand some fifty varas, they forthwith went to work to make them by drawing lines in front of the cove and intersecting them at right angles by lines running up over the hills, giving their own names, with a sprinkling ...
— Some Cities and San Francisco and Resurgam • Hubert Howe Bancroft
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... shields of light wood, with their armholes fastened on the inside. These cover them from top to toe, and are called carasas [kalasag]. At the waist they carry a dagger four fingers in breadth, the blade pointed, and a third of a vara in length; the hilt is of gold or ivory. The pommel is open and has two cross bars or projections, without any other guard. They are called bararaos. They have two cutting edges, and are kept in wooden scabbards, or those of buffalo-horn, admirably wrought. ...
— History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2 • Antonio de Morga
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Words linked to "Vara" :   linear unit, linear measure


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