Braza

The sawyers of _brazas_ [27] shall receive four reals for each _braza_ one braza long and one vara wide, but nothing else. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

Great interest attaches to this apartment, from the fact that, according to Sr. Mariano Ruiz, the sacred embers ( "braza") were kept here until 1840, in which year the five last remaining families of Pecos Indians removed to their cognates at Jemez, and the "sacred fire" disappeared with them. ❋ Adolphus Bandelier (N/A)

Having investigated and examined the above-mentioned, I judged it best to open a trial place or mouth high up, and in the middle of all the mine works that the said Ygolotes were carrying on, in order to get all the body of the metal from the top which is more than one braza wide, and from the crust of the earth. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

When they are thirsty, the Indians cut off a braza, and a quartillo of fluid runs out of it, which is good and healthful. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

The arms used by them consist of a pointed lance one-third of a vara long, which they generally carry, well polished, and set in a handle of strong wood more than one braza long. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

Not a braza of rope did I find, nor balls for ten pieces of artillery which are here. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

I embarked in it; it must have been more than one braza long. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

[91] These timbers having been placed, as I say, upright in the earth, and having the space of more than a braza beneath them, form the columns of the edifice, and upon them the natives build. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

The _braza_ (square) was used in the Philippines as a measure of surface, being equivalent to 36 Spanish, or 30.9168 English, square feet. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)

This bird lays its eggs in the sand, a braza deep, at the edge of the water. ❋ Various (1906)

The figure here given and the use of word _pasos_, normally, a land measure of length, instead of _braza_, "fathom," would seem to indicate that the 65 paces refers to the extent of shore laid bare, and not to the height of the tide. ❋ Various (1884)

It lays its eggs, which are three times larger than those of our hens, in sandy places, and easily buries them in a hole about one braza deep. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)

The animal measured, from its shoulders to the tip of its tail, five brazas, [29] and from the shoulders to the mouth one braza -- making its total length six brazas; and across the breast alone measured a full braza. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

The _bailan_ plays on a heavy reed pipe about one braza in length, such as are common to that land, in the manner of a trumpet; and, while thus engaged, the people say that he talks to their gods. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

The bar of the river is not more than one braza deep; and its coast thereabout, for more than twenty leagues, is very forbidding. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

[61] The _estado_ was equivalent to 1.85472 English yards, having nearly the same value as the _braza_. ❋ Emma Helen Blair (1884)

It is of great advantage also to have the Sangleys construct the building; they agree on so much per braza, including the cutting of stones and the carrying of the sand. ❋ Edward Gaylord Bourne (1884)

The rivers come, one from the east-northeast (this is the largest, about two hundred and fifty yards wide), the other, which has many branches, comes from the northeast through tulares and swamps in very low land, the channels not over two brazas with sandy bars at their mouths, where I found in sounding the water not more than a half braza. ❋ Eusebius J. Molera (1880)

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[Man1]: I'm worried about Sam, he just [fell in] love with a Braza. Man2: [God Bless] that f_cker, at least his ball will always be empty for a few years. Man1: But so will his pockets! ❋ VindaLoco2 (2010)

[Eu] [sou] do Braza. Braza [Pride]. ❋ BrazaPride305 (2009)

For Women: Yo, you have been MIA for 2 weeks where have you been? I've been [braza-ing] on the beach in sao paulo, got a [lypo] ([Lyposuction]), and got plunged (had my ankles on a guys shoulders while he had sex with me), down in brazil , you know I needed a release. ❋ VindaLoco (2010)

Person: "Who is that [sex rat] ?//? man boy" Person 2: "That's my Vincent Francis John Brazas" Person: "Ok. Ok. Sex, , , it uno yeah ojat [hahh] [hnn] n fuck" ❋ Bowling567 (2019)