noun
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the former standard monetary unit of Thailand, replaced by the baht in 1928
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a unit of weight, formerly used in Thailand, equal to about half an ounce or 14 grams
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Etymology
Origin of tical
1655–65; < Thai < Portuguese < Malay tikal
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A recent report misspelled the word "tical," an archaic unit of mass equivalent to about 16 grams or half an ounce.
From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2012
The gentleman from Ohio, whom the majority has elected as speaker, was endowed by nature with an aptitude for public affairs of a poli- tical character.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Systematic investigation of matter and energy without regard to immediate prac tical ends has turned out to be the most direct road to social riches."
From Time Magazine Archive
But Mr. Boland and Mr. Johnson, prac tical and earthy men, saw their job as getting out the vote and to their job they swung with vim.
From Time Magazine Archive
This chief justice is called Coytoro tical carnaver; he has his lieutenants in all the villages, to whom he farms the administration of justice: that is to say, the fines, not capital penalties.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
Each tree is planted in an artificial gilt mound, and is worth from five hundred to seven hundred ticals, while the chains and rings are decorated with large and pure rubies.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
I accepted the condition; and even promised that if I saw the nuggets of pure gold that Gabriel's chickens pecked, I would immediately accommodate him with the ten ticals to invest in a screw-driver.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
In the first place, the Siamese government voluntarily reduced the measurement duties on foreign shipping from nineteen hundred to one thousand ticals per fathom of ship's beam.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
A chowfa might receive, in the aggregate, from five hundred thousand to a million ticals.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette
And when I approached her owners they offered no objections to earning a few-score extra ticals by extending her itinerary so as to drop me at the tiny Cambodian port of Kep.
From Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China by Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
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