Definitions for brazas

brazas bra·za

Spelling: [brah-thah, -sah]
IPA: /ˈbrɑ θɑ, -sɑ/

Brazas is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in brazas (aabrsz).

Definitions for brazas

noun

  1. a unit of length in some Spanish-speaking countries, representing the reach of outspread arms, officially 5.48 U.S. ft. (1.67 meters) in Spain and 5.68 U.S. ft. (1.73 meters) in Argentina.

Origin of brazas

Spanish Latin brāchia arms (neuter plural), taken as feminine singular; see brace

Examples for brazas

The bar of the river is not more than one braza deep; and its coast thereabout, for more than twenty leagues, is very forbidding.

The braza is called dipa; that of the city is of sixty points, into which the six feet contained in it are divided.

When they are thirsty, the Indians cut off a braza, and a quartillo of fluid runs out of it, which is good and healthful.

Banana leaves, which are one braza long and one-half braza wide, serve them as napkins.

The sawyers of brazas16 shall receive four reals for each braza one braza long and one vara wide, but nothing else.

This bird lays its eggs in the sand, a braza deep, at the edge of the water.

Not a braza of rope did I find, nor balls for ten pieces of artillery which are here.

I embarked in it; it must have been more than one braza long.

In order to do this, it was necessary to lengthen the keel a braza, and to raise the sides about half a vara.

Word Value for brazas
Scrable

16

Words with friends

17

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