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What is a vara?

What is a vara? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A unit of length in the old Spanish system (equal to 0.8359 metres) or the old Portuguese system (equal to 1.1 metres).
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Surprisingly little confusion is caused by the multivalency of terms such as vara and hou in practice.
Now if you'd put that in your pamphlet it would have been vara jocose.
Occasionally there is some deformity, as when coxa vara develops.
But the measuring sticks were not uniform, and across Spain the vara therefore represented different lengths.
Bear it mild an' asy, vara, acushla, for I know it will take a start out of you.
But for vara there was no enjoyment, no resting all that day.

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