quintal
IPA: kwˈɪntʌɫ
noun
- (historical) Synonym of hundredweight, 100 or 112 English or American pounds.
- (historical) Various other similar units of weight in other systems.
- An unofficial metric unit equal to 100 kg.
- (grammar) A grammatical number referring to five (or more) things.
- A surname.
adjective
- (grammar) Referring to five (or more) things; of, in or relating to the quintal grammatical number.
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Examples of "quintal" in Sentences
- A quintal is a unit of measurement equal for growers to 100 pounds 45 kilograms.
- The Crown of Victory which the figure holds in her hands weighs one hundred quintals (a quintal is a hundred-weight).
- All the marchandise which they sell or buy within the sayd citie, they bargaine for at so many serafines per quintal, which is
- L'Orient and Havre, varies from sixteen florins to twenty-four florins the French quintal, which is equal to one hundred and nine pounds our weight.
- The state government is planning to propose MSP for potato at Rs 305 per quintal, which is Rs 30 higher than last year to protect the farmers 'interests, they said.
- Rouen levies on it a duty of twenty sols the quintal, which is very sensible in its price, brings it dearer to the bleacheries near Paris, to those of Beauvais, Laval, &c. and to the glass-works, and encourages them to give a preference to the potash or soude of other nations.
- But the city of Rouen levies on it a duty of twenty sols the quintal, which is very sensible in its price, brings it dearer to the bleacheries near Paris, to those of Beauvais, Laval, etc., and to the glass works, and encourages them to give a preference to the potash or soude of other nations.
- Pawar also said that the Government has already fixed the fair and remunerative price (FRP) of sugarcane for 2009-10 sugar season at Rs. 129.84 per quintal, which is more than 50 percent higher than the cost of production and transportation incurred, on an average, by the sugarcane farmers in India.
- What is there called the quintal weighs from and hundred a fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling, not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muskavada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar.
- What is there called the quintal, weighs from a hundred and fifty to two hundred Paris pounds, or a hundred and seventy-five Paris pounds at a medium, which reduces the price of the hundred weight English to about eight shillings sterling; not a fourth part of what is commonly paid for the brown or muscovada sugars imported from our colonies, and not a sixth part of what is paid for the finest white sugar.
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