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
Dr. Hatton has taught poli- tical science at Western Reserve University since 1907, has served on Cleveland's city council since 1924.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kari Sylwan, the only one of the quar tet unfamiliar from previous Bergman films, gives Anna a strange, almost mys tical sense of strength.
From Time Magazine Archive
Siam abruptly substituted, as a monetary unit, the baht for the tical.
From Time Magazine Archive
If scep- tical, ask ancient ladies, once the Damsels of Dieppe.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 6, 1890 by Various
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 E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell
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 Anna Harriette Leonowens
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 Anna Harriette Leonowens
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 Anna Harriette Leonowens
His private charities amounted annually to ten thousand ticals.
From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens
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