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quintal

[ kwin-tl ]

noun

  1. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).


quintal

/ ˈ°ì·Éɪ²Ô³ÙÉ™±ô /

noun

  1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
  2. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quintal1

1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin ±ç³Ü¾±²Ô³ÙÄå±ô±ð < Arabic ±ç¾±²Ôá¹­Är weight of a hundred pounds, probably ≪ Latin ³¦±ð²Ô³Ùŧ²ÔÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ. centenary, kantar, kilderkin
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of quintal1

C15: via Old French from Arabic ±ç¾±²Ô³ÙÄå°ù, possibly from Latin ³¦±ð²Ô³Ùŧ²ÔÄå°ù¾±³Ü²õ consisting of a hundred
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Example Sentences

But larger ones, such as quintal d’alsace, the massive green and white cabbages that thrive in Alsace in Northeastern France, spend many months in the ground.

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Rice from South Carolina or quintals of fish from Marble-head; money even from London, for there was much sympathy in England for Boston.

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The fisheries were of great value, as much as a quarter of a million quintals of dried fish being annually exported to Spain, Portugal, and the Mediterranean.

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A good season’s catch is one hundred quintals of dry fish a man.

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In the island of Java, about twenty-five quintals of these nests are collected annually.

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