quintal
Americannoun
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a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).
noun
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a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
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a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
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Etymology
Origin of quintal
1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin quintāle < Arabic qinṭār weight of a hundred pounds, probably ≪ Latin centēnārius. Cf. centenary, kantar, kilderkin
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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.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2022
The U.S. said it, then said it again: ECA could feed Europe without buying a quintal of wheat from Argentina.
From Time Magazine Archive
His parishioners agreed to give him a quintal per man of winter fish—their best.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
Supposing the day's work to be worth one franc, it is evident that France could, by barter, procure a quintal of iron by eight days' labor taken from the labor of the nation.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
In 1745 a quintal would sell for a guinea.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams
The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The French yearly ration of wheat is estimated at 85,000,000 quintals; production in Continental France is estimated at 79,000,000 quintals, with 20,000,000 more from the French North African harvest.
From Time Magazine Archive
The scraped Danubian plain blazed like brass: Hungary, one of the bounteous nations of Europe, would this year require six million quintals of wheat.
From Time Magazine Archive
This crop, added to the French home crop of 65,000,000 quintals, brings the nation's crops within its needs, which are estimated at 85,000,000 quintals a year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rice from South Carolina or quintals of fish from Marble-head; money even from London, for there was much sympathy in England for Boston.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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