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Definition of Almude

Almude
Almude Al*mude", n. [Pg. almude, or Sp. almud, a measure of grain or dry fruit, fr. Ar. al-mudd a dry measure.] A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the ``almud' is about 1.4 gallons.

Meaning of Almude from wikipedia

- The almude is an obsolete Portuguese unit of measurement of volume used in Portugal, Brazil and other parts of the Portuguese Empire. Etymologically, it...
- alqueire = 1/6 almude). Some of other units are provided below: 1 canada = 1⁄12 almude 1 moio = 10 almudes 1 pipa = 12 almudes 1 tonel = 30 almudes. The cargueiro...
- arroba (Arabic: rub), quintal (Arabic: qintar), alqueire (Arabic: kayl), almude (Arabic: mudd), fanega (Arabic: faniqa), cafiz (Arabic: qafiz), etc. The...
- in the south of the country. Fundamental units like the alqueire and the almude were imported by the northwest of Portugal in the 11th century, before the...
- and liquid, were used to measure capacity. One fanega was 288 L and one almude was 1⁄12 fanega. Several units were used to measure liquid capacity. One...
- defined. Some units included: 1 sahh = 56 L 1 fanega = 56 L 1 mudd = 14 L 1 almude = 14 L. Cardarelli, F. (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights...
- ('hairy'). EXCEPTIONS: For etymological reasons, some words such as almud ('almude'), fluid ('fluid'), fred ('cold'), sud ('South'); Alfred ('Alfred'), Conrad...
- varied according to the nature of the measured good. In Portugal the name almude was used and their values were much larger than the Spanish ones. It is...
- defined as 4 octavillos or 1/4 almude and contains 1.156 L ≈ 1.222 qt(US) (liquid) ≈ 1.017 qt(Imp) 1 fanega = 12 almudes = 48 cuartillos ≈ 55.50 L ≈ 1...
- paid 3$000 réis annually, for 3.5 almudes of olive oil, two alqueires for wheat for sacramental bread dand two almudes of wine for the cruet. In 1706, during...