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‖ fanega|faˈneːga|
Also 7 hanega.
[Sp. fanega, also hanega.]
1. A Spanish measure of quantity, usually equal to a bushel or a bushel and a half.
1502Arnold Chron. 158 He promysed him of whete and barly xxv. fanegas. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 372 Everie Hanega of corne that is ground in Fez. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. 285 The fanega costs here only ten or twelve rials, or two dollars. 1850B. Taylor Eldorado vii. (1862) 65 We purchased half a fanega—a little more than a bushel—of wheat, for $5.
2. A measure for land.
1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. xv. 478 In this country five thousand three hundred coffee-trees are generally planted in a fanega of ground. |