almud

plural almuds · alternative almude

1. historicalA traditional Spanish and Portuguese unit of dry measure or volume, highly variable by region and substance but often equivalent to about 4.6 liters (one celemin).

   An almud is a measure of volume rather than weight; an almud of wheat equals about 22 pounds and an almud of potatoes 20 pounds.

   1990, Carmen Diana Deere, Household and Class Relations, page 79

   1 more example

   Both sexes were equally familiar with and preferred the Spanish almud (equal to four quarts of seed)... over any indigenous measure.

   1997, Stephanie Wood, “Nahuatl Testaments of Rural Women”, in Indian Women of Early Mexico, page 174

2. historicalA traditional unit of land area, nominally the amount of land that could be sown with one almud of seed.
3. historicalA low, wide box used as a physical measure for this unit.
4. alternativehistoricalAlternative form of almude (“a Portuguese unit of measure”).