Meaning of furco | Babel Free

Definitions

1. the distance between the outstretched tips of the index finger and thumb when used as a unit of measurement, equals to 1/6 of a vara, or 1/12 of a braza (fathom)
   masculine
2. plait of garlics or onions
   masculine

Examples

“Iten, os ditos Gonçaluo Ferrnandes e Gonçaluo Ferreiro se obrigaron de trager pera a obra da ponte d'Ourense oyteenta trabes de carballo, que ajan cada hua viinte e sete cóbedos conpridos en longo et que sejan da grosura que diser Diego Afonso, e aja en cabo cada trabe hun furco de grosura, et eno outro cabo aquela gordura que rasonauel for, según diser o dito Diego Afonso.”

Item, the aforementioned Gonzalvo Fernández and Gonzalvo Ferreiro committed to bring, for the work of the bridge of Ourense, eighty beans of oak, each one twenty seven cubits in long and the thickness that Diego Afonso would say, and in one extreme each bean must have one furco in thick, and in the other whatever thickness which is reasonable, according to what Diego Afonso would say

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