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rastra

rastra is the alternative form of arrastra.

Meaning of arrastra

Noun

arrastra (plural arrastras)

  1. A device formerly used by gold-miners for grinding auriferous quartz, crudely resembling a mortar and pestle, with the crushing element dragged around by horse or mule.

Forms of rastra

pluralrastras

Questions about rastra

What is rastra the alternative form of?
Rastra is the alternative form of arrastra.

Words near rastra in the dictionary

  1. Rastitutes
  2. rastodentid
  3. rastodentids
  4. Rastogi
  5. Rastogis
  6. rastra
  7. rastras
  8. rastrate
  9. rastravadi
  10. rastravadis
  11. rastrawadi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rastra (page history and authors); arrastra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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