tola
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tola
1605–15; < Hindi tolā ≪ Sanskrit tolaka
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What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
In some factories the night closes with a grand dance by all the inhabitants of the dangur tola.
From Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter by James Inglis
So I ran on to the tola where an uncle and aunt of mine lived.
From Folklore of the Santal Parganas by Cecil Henry Bompas
In Bombay the latter are known as the Akarmāshes or 11 māshas, meaning that as twelve māshas make a tola, a twelfth part of them is alloy.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
The tola is a rupee’s weight, or two-fifths of an ounce.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
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