noun. Any of various traditional units of dry measure, weight, or land area used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries or territories.

noun. A Spanish and Spanish-American dry measure containing about 11/2 United States bushels.

noun. A Spanish and Spanish-American land-measure containing about 13/5 acres.

noun. A dry measure in Spain and Spanish America, varying from 1� to 2� bushels; also, a measure of land.

noun. Any of various units of dry capacity, mass and land area used in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world; originally a unit of dry capacity used for grain.

noun. A former unit of area, the amount of land that would be sown with a fanega of seed.

"The corn was three current dollars per fanega, which is full five shillings per bushel; and biscuit at twenty-five shillings for the hundred pounds."

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