Crossword-Solution: CANTARO 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Again he speaks of "la Rue des Infantes" at Madrid, (8, 1)--"De los Infantos is the name of a street in that city--and in the same sentence names "une vieille dame Inesile Cantarille." Inesilla is the Spanish diminutive of Ines, and Cantarilla of Cantaro.

Every woman who goes to the noria for a cantaro of water carries a handful of corn, which she drops in a place provided for that purpose: this tribute is intended for the maintenance of the mules, and we paid two cents for the drinking of each of our horses.

The most characteristic are the _arruxiadós_, or _borracha_, a vessel spirally ribbed with several narrow spouts, used by the peasant girls of the villages to sprinkle rose water in the festival of the patron saint of the district; the _porrones_, a bottle with a long spout, used by the peasantry for drinking wine; the _cantaro_, a jug, funnel shaped with wide mouth, handle and curved spout, and the _pilas de agua bendita_, a holy water vessel of different shapes.

The sheikh was forced to pay this sum to the very farthing, although the goods had not cost the government more than about one thousand piasters; for the government pays one ox-hide with three piasters, and a cantaro of gum with fifteen piasters.

The gum Arabic is collected in the forests a few months after the expiration of the rainy season, and we may say by force; for the government pays the cantaro of forty-four oock’ckahs, equivalent to one hundred and ten pounds, with fifteen piasters (four shillings and fourpence) only.