Crossword-Solution: ARROBA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Arroba | n. | A Spanish weight used in Mexico and South America = 25.36 lbs. avoir.; also, an old Portuguese weight, used in Brazil = 32.38 lbs. avoir. |
| Arroba | n. | A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “ARROBA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old Spanish weight | 1 answer |
| Spanish weight unit | 1 answer |
| unit of weight in Spanish-speaking countries | 1 answer |
| Brazilian weight | 2 answers |
| SPANISH volume measure | 3 answers |
| SPANISH weight | 7 answers |
| Portuguese measure | 10 answers |
| SPANISH measure | 17 answers |
| unit of weight | 26 answers |
| Weight | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ARROBA (5)
They wash the gold out of the mountain streams,' says the brown man, 'and fill quills with it; and then they empty 'em into red jars till they are full; and then they pack it in buckskin sacks of one arroba each--an arroba is twenty-five pounds--and store it in a stone house, with an engraving of a idol with marcelled hair, playing a flute, over the door.' "'How do they work off this unearth increment?' I asks.
After he had collected an arroba of the precious metal, winning a profit of nearly $5,000, the heads of the lightened mules were turned down-trail again.
Sugar-houses are thought to be very considerable that yield 2000 cases annually, or 32,000 arrobas (nearly 368,000 kilogrammes.) An arroba of 25 Spanish pounds = 11.49 kilogrammes.
Franzini the Portuguese onca is equal to 0.028 of a kilogramme, and 8 oncas make 1 mark; 2 marks make 1 arratel, and 32 arratels 1 arroba.) If, in commercial value, gold in grains prevails, in the republic of Columbia, over the value of other metals, the latter are not on that account less worthy to fix the attention of government and of individuals.
The paper that he thus stored up was purchased by the pasteboard factories; they gave him from thirty or forty céntimos per arroba.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1975–1991).