quintal
Americannoun
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quintals
plural
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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
Vocabulary lists containing quintal
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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
“Believe me, sir,” Docks sighed, “they wasn’t a port Skipper Jim wouldn’t make, whatever the weather, if he could trade a dress or a Bible or a what-not for a quintal o’ fish.
From Doctor Luke of the Labrador by Norman Duncan
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 Arthur E. Becher
Ten specimens of Ilocos indigo were shown at the Madrid Exhibition of 1887, and the price varied from $12 to $67 per quintal.
From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer
The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last year.
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
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
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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