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Definition of Tortas
1. torta [n] - See also: torta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tortas
Literary usage of Tortas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Bruno Kerl, William Crookes, Ernst Otto Röhrig (1868)
"Mules are generally used, and the large masses called tortas are 40 or 50 feet
in diameter, and about a foot thick, frequently consisting of 60 or 70 tons ..."
2. A Practical Treatise on Metallurgy: Adapted from the Last German Edition of by Sir William Crookes, Bruno Kerl, Ernst Otto Röhring (1868)
"Mules are generally used, and the large masses called tortas are 40 or 50 feet
in diameter, and about a foot thick, frequently consisting of 60 or 70 tons ..."
3. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1904)
"The patio is simply a spacious area paved with cement or some other material as
impervious as possible to mercury, When first formed the tortas are of about ..."
4. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1867)
"The Hacienda Sauceda at Zacatecas will contain twenty-four tortas of sixty tons
each ; and the patio floor of the Hacienda Nueva, at Fresnillo, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"After a sufficient number of repetitions of these alternate processes, sulphate
of copper in one form or another is sprinkled over the tortas and mixed by a ..."
6. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New by Alexander von Humboldt, Aimé Bonpland (1827)
"... in the worst soil, a harvest of six tortas of cassava; the same extent on a
middling soil yields in fourteen months a produce of nine tortas. ..."
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