Also 7 hanega. [Sp. fanega, also hanega.]
1. A Spanish measure of quantity, usually equal to a bushel or a bushel and a half.
1502. Arnold, Chron., 158. He promysed him of whete and barly xxv. fanegas.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, II. 372. Everie Hanega of corne that is ground in Fez.
1760–72. trans. Juan & Ulloa’s Voy. (ed. 3), II. 285. The fanega costs here only ten or twelve rials, or two dollars.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, vii. (1862), 65. We purchased half a fanega—a little more than a bushel—of wheat, for $5.
2. A measure for land.
1852. Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav. I. xv. 478. In this country five thousand three hundred coffee-trees are generally planted in a fanega of ground, amounting to five thousand four hundred and seventy-six square toises.
