Definitions for manos

manos ma·no

Spelling: [mah-noh; Spanish mah-naw]
IPA: /ˈmɑ noʊ; Spanish ˈmɑ nɔ/

Manos is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in manos (amnos).

Definitions for manos

noun

  1. the upper or handheld stone used when grinding maize or other grains on a metate.

Origin of manos

1895-1900, Americanism; Spanish: literally, hand Latin manus; cf. manual

Examples for manos

Where manos and metates were of frequent occurrence in the Tank Site, they become rare here.

Tools from the surface included general core tools, manos, and metates.

manos, like metates, were not too numerous nor varied in form.

Four lesser sites yielding core tools, and manos were noted along the small tributary system on which the Tank Site is located.

Ground- and pecked-stone pieces consisted mainly of manos and metates.

Emergent is the correlation of core hammerstones and the presence of manos and metates.

They may be distinguished from manos by their reduced size though many appear to look like little manos.

The ratio of manos to metates is quite different here than at the Tank Site.

In 1892 manos became the see of the new bishopric of Amazonas.

manos, 52 years old and a Haiti native who came here in 1970, worked for Bear Stearns for some 25 years, starting in 1982.

Word Value for manos
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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