quintal

American  

[kwin-tl] / ˈkwɪn tl /

noun

1. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).

2. hundredweight.

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quintal British  

/ ˈkwɪntəl /

noun

1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds

2. 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. centenary, kantar, kilderkin

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.

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

In this country of China the pepper is worth fifteen ducats the quintal, and more according to the quantity they carry there, which pepper they buy in Malaca at four ducats the quintal.

From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte

Three hundred quintals of dry fish, at four dollars, roughly, a quintal, was twelve hundred dollars.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Duncan, Norman

It’s a new and rather unexpected arrangement, but he prophesies that with nitrate at ten shillings per Spanish quintal the returns on the investment, under the newer conditions, should be quite satisfactory.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.