quintal
noun
a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms (220.5 avoirdupois pounds).
quintals
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pluralof quintal.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last year.
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
