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Meanings of quintal in English
Catalan
quintar A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
Usage of quintal in English
1
Sheepskins eight dollars the hundred, bullock-skins three dollars per quintal, and goat-skins the same.
2
The Spanish quintal nearly equals 100 English pounds.
3
He pulled down a quintal bag of coffee.
4
I'd give a quintal fer the chance.
5
Samuels only allowed we four dollars a quintal, and his flour was eight, and molasses seventy cents.
6
The duty on this is only seven and a half deniers the quintal, or about one-quarter per cent.
7
The quintal is about 10 lbs.
8
Of grain, wheat pays an export duty of three-fourths of a dollar per fanega, or about a quintal.
9
Almonds.-Boththe sweet and the bitter, in the shell, or the oil of almonds, pay three dollars per quintal.
10
Gums.-Gum-arabic pays two dollars per quintal export duty, and gum sudanic an ad valorem duty of ten per cent.
11
The entire cost of producing a quintal (101 1-5 lbs.
12
The hoops alone serve in Manila to make nails and bolts from them, which thus come to cost fifty ducados per quintal.
13
The duty on this, is only seven and a half deniers the quintal, or about one quarter per cent, on its first cost.
14
Instead of three francs the quintal, Mignot had previously told me that he got four francs, delivered at Gland, and five at Geneva.
15
The CCI is offering support prices of 4,050 rupees per quintal for long-staple varieties and 3,750 rupees for medium-staple varieties.
16
You're sure in luck as how I could bring him, an' I'll jist lay yer a quintal as how he's goin' to fix yer shipshape.
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Quintal through the time