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单词 vare
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varen.

Forms: Also 1600s varre.
Etymology: < Spanish vara vara n.
Obsolete.
1. = vara n.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [noun] > units of length or distance > Spanish unit
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varaa1690
1545 Rates Custome House sig. diiijv The Vares of Spayne... ix. Vares makithe .viii. yardes Englysshe.
1584 W. Barrett in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 215 The other measure is called a vare,..which measure is of 5 palmes or spannes, and is one code and two third parts.
1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 175 Certain peeces of blacke silke of twelue vares long a peece.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xi. 240 It extendes above foure score Varres or yardes in length.
2. A rod, staff, or wand, esp. as a symbol of judicial office or authority.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod
yardc1275
tipped stickc1386
bastona1400
mace?a1419
wandc1430
warderc1440
baculc1449
roda1450
verge1493
staff1535
tipstaff1541
verger1547
truncheon1573
vare1578
baton?1590
trunch1590
fasces1598
macer wanda1600
virge1610
batoona1652
stick1677
shaku1875
poker1905
1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 357 He tooke the Vares of Justice from the Judges and Sargeants, and incontinent restored them againe.
1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ iii. xxxi. 109 If an Alguazil..shew him his Vare, that is a little white staffe he carrieth as badge of his Office.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 48 Imposing my hand upon a Crosse held out to me upon the end of a Vare, or wand.
1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 19 His Hand a Vare of Justice did uphold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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