quintal

How to use quintal in a sentence

• With the one quintal that resulted therefrom, they incorporated on the said day one libra of quicksilver.

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XX, 1621-1624 | Various

• We fished a clean half-quintal; then, late in the day, a rising wind caught us napping in Hell Alley.

  The Cruise of the Shining Light | Norman Duncan

• quintal, kwin′tal, n. a hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds according to the scale.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• From the rule already given, grams per quintal may be converted into ounces to the ton by multiplying by 0.327.

  A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. | Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

• The customs drawbacks were abrogated, and in place of them was granted a bounty of five lire per quintal of metal used in repairs.

  Manual of Ship Subsidies | Edwin M. Bacon