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quintal
[ kwin-tl ]
quintal
/ ˈ°ì·Éɪ²Ô³ÙÉ™±ô /
noun
- a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
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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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