Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Porto Rico, a unit of land-measure, equal to about two fifths of an acre.
- noun The name of several different Spanish units of length.
- noun In the province of La Mancha in Spain, a measure of land, one half of the seed-ground for a fanega of corn.
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Examples
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La orquesta presentará tres quintetos: dos para cuarteto de cuerda y shakuachi japonés y otro para cuarteto de cuerda y pipa china.
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Caminar sobre la cuerda floja: una conversación con el filósofo iraní Ramin Jahanbegloo: Jahanbegloo, heredero de Berlin, es uno de los disidentes más ... ayatolas.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Israel Concerned over Germany-Iran Deal 2008
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There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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Desafío aquí a cualquier persona cuerda a explicarme porque metieron en la cárcel a esa mujer.
El Funcionario Loco 2008
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There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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There were men who walked these deserts a hundred years ago, the penitentes, chanting and fasting, scourging themselves with hemp whips, or whips made from the braided fiber of the yucca plant, or cord whips, la cuerda, a small whip of tightly knotted wool.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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La nada se convierte en lo único que me sustenta, y ya estoy más loca que cuerda.
cruda Diary Entry cruda 2005
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Sheemie came in through the batwings, hands grimy, pink sombrera bouncing on his back at the end of its cuerda.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Porto Rican cuerda 0.9701 acre 3930.4037 sq. meters
Santo Domingo A Country with a Future Otto Schoenrich
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I have seen the Gallego porters make themselves a hammock with the rope they always carry with them -- _mozos de cuerda_ they are called -- literally slinging themselves to the _reja_ or iron bars of the window of some private house, and sleep soundly in a position that would surely kill any other human being.
Spanish Life in Town and Country L. Higgin
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