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quintal

American  

[kwin-tl] / ˈkwɪn tl /

noun

• quintals
  plural

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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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• quintals
  plural

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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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quintal quintals

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

He himself had determined that the price should be 52 or 53 per quintal, and then he took what was given him.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55 1690-1691 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

But now she had but a thousand quintal of fish compared to the sixteen hundred of her rival.

From The Harbor of Doubt by George W. Gage

The best gum is selling at Akka for six dollars a quintal: they will not bring it here, fearing the infection.

From An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by James Grey Jackson

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

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 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

The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last 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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