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catties

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One cat can yield four to five catties.

From BBC • Oct. 26, 2023

The company said it had accepted 860,000 catties of garlic in deals involving 30 homes.

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2022

The garlic promotion attracted 852 visits and 30 transactions involving 860,000 catties of garlic during the 16 days it was available, the advertisement said.

From Reuters • Jun. 21, 2022

Not even ten catties of gold, say refugees from Changchun, can buy an air ticket from the dying northeastern capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tortoise-shell 2,081 580 — 555 1,912 — 469 5,597 catties.

From Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 by MacMicking, Robert