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Meanings of picul in English
Usage of picul in English
1
Where, then, was our picul of rice, and our curry, and our sugar?
2
Rice of foreign importation is weighed and quoted by the picul of 133⅓ lbs.
3
The ordinary price is about 1¼ dollars per picul.
4
The price of straight sappan wood at Shanghae in July, last year, was thirty dollars per picul.
5
The price of camphor at Canton in July, 1850, was from fourteen to fifteen dollars per picul.
6
The cotton, in the seed, is sold by the picul, which is a weight of about 133 lbs.
7
The price has gradually declined to 1¼ dollars per picul, at which rate it displaces its rival, bark.
8
This is divided between the two houses, and the price they pay is from four to five dollars the picul.
9
In quantity it was 17 Spanish dollars per picul, and there is no reason to suppose it would be more now.
10
The whole of the coffee grown must be delivered by the inhabitants to the government exclusively, at twelve copper florins per picul.
11
The cost of granulated sago, from the hands of the grower or producer, was, according to Mr. Crawfurd, only a dollar a picul.
12
The cassia oil is rated at 150 dollars per picul, and the trade in this article reaches about 250,000 dollars.
13
In parting with the men after our safe arrival at Chung-king, we left with them about seven-eighths of the picul-andwere not at all regretful.
14
The quantity of gold that finds its way to Pontiana is annually from three to four piculs.
15
Upwards of three thousand five hundred piculs are now exported, of which one-sixth goes to the United States.
16
About 600,000 piculs of coco-nut oil are annually exported from Siam.