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Definition of Aroba
1. araba [n -S] - See also: araba
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aroba
Literary usage of Aroba
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mining and Smelting Magazine (1862)
"238 The black copper yielded by the above quantity of rich slags would be 20
arobas, and the cost per aroba 11 reals 90 c. At Rio Tinto the actual cost for ..."
2. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch by Onkelos, J W Etheridge, Jonathan b. Uzziel, Pentateuch Aram (1862)
"And the Lord did so; and the aroba came with strength into the house of Pharoh,
and into the house of his servants, and into all the land of Mizraim; ..."
3. La Plata, the Argentine Confederation and Paraguay: Being a Narrative of the by Thomas Jefferson Page (1859)
"Net proceeds, at the present price of tobacco (one dollar and fifty cents the
aroba), eighty-three cents the aroba. The profit would be three and one third ..."
4. Journal of a Passage from the Pacific to the Atlantic: Crossing the Andes in by Maw, Henry Lister (1829)
"Sarsaparilla three dollars the aroba, paid in hatchets and ... About half an
aroba is collected in a year, and its value is four reals a pound. ..."
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