Definitions for varas

varas va·ra

Spelling: [vahr-uh; Spanish bah-r
IPA: /ˈvɑr ə; Spanish ˈbɑ rɑ; Portuguese ˈvɑ rə/

Varas is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in varas (aarsv).

Definitions for varas

noun

  1. a unit of length in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, varying from about 32 inches (81 cm) to about 43 inches (109 cm).
  2. the square vara, used as a unit of area.

Origin of varas

1595-1605; Spanish Latin vāra forked pole, noun use of feminine of vārus crooked, bent

Examples for varas

Two are of about forty quintals' weight, three varas in length and carry a ball of cast iron weighing sixteen libras.

They're a hundred varas square--four times as big as the others.

Solares, or house-lots, of twenty by forty varas were given to settlers in numbers equal to the available suertes, field-lots.

The price of a canoe for the Marañon is twenty-five varas of lienzo, and the same for each Indian.

Night and day she worked on her cloth, and when it was finished she had eight varas.

Then Driscoll invested in a number of varas of calico print.

These poles were measured and found to be about 13 varas long (roughly 35 ft.).

From one point to the other the depth of the water is four varas, becoming shallower to two, when one sails close to the shore.

Other pieces of common silk, ten varas for one tae three maçes.

They were round and fixed, pools of bottomless blackness, staring at me through two varas of clear, swaying water.

Word Value for varas
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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