quintal
[kwin-tl]
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).
- hundredweight.
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Origin of quintal
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"'Wouldn't hev your conscience fer a thousand quintal," said Dan.
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
Pray back a nine-thousand-dollar boat an' a thousand quintal of fish.
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
You see, we're first off the Banks this season, and it's four twenty-five a quintal.
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
There isn't but three—no—two ninety-four or five quintal more by my reckoning.
"Captains Courageous"Rudyard Kipling
Quintal had probably not intended to hurt the child, but he expressed no regret.
The Lonely IslandR.M. Ballantyne
quintal
- a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
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Word Origin
C15: via Old French from Arabic qintār, possibly from Latin centēnārius consisting of a hundred
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Word Origin and History for quintal
n.
"a weight of a hundred pounds," c.1400, from Old French quintal "hundredweight," and directly from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic quintar, from Late Greek kentenarion, from Latin centenarius "containing a hundred" (see centenary).
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