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varas

  • plural
    of vara.
    vara
    noun
    a unit of length in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, varying from about 32 inches (81 centimeters) to about 43 inches (109 centimeters).

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Pieces of thin, fine silk, which contain about twenty varas, arc worth three and one-half and four taes.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

Good pieces of damask, seven taes; a piece contains fourteen varas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 19 of 55 1620-1621 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

Where the water runs, the stream is half a vara deep and 4 varas across, and in other places it widens and contains more water.

From The Aboriginal Population of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, California by Sherburne Friend Cook

I followed through the tule swamp and after going a little way I met three armed Indians at a distance of about one hundred long varas.

From Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 by Sherburne Friend Cook

I am only a poor Jarocho—owning nothing but my rancho, a few varas of garden-ground, my horse, my saddle, and my macheté.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

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