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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quintal \Quin"tal\, n. [F., fr. Sp. quintal, fr. Ar. qintar a weight of 100 lbs., prob. fr. L. centenarius consisting of a hundred, fr. centeni a hundred each, fr. centum a hundred. See Hundred, and cf. Kentle.]
A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental. [Sometimes written and pronounced kentle.]
A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a weight of a hundred pounds," c.1400, from Old French quintal "hundredweight," and directly from Medieval Latin quintale, from Arabic quintar, from Late Greek kentenarion, from Latin centenarius "containing a hundred" (see centenary).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now historical English) A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight. 2 One hundred kilograms.
WordNet
n. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental]
Wikipedia
The quintal or centner is a historical unit of mass in many countries which is usually defined as 100 base units of either pounds or kilograms. In British English, it referred to the hundredweight; in American English, it formerly referred to an uncommon measure of 100 kilograms.
Quintal may refer to:
- Quintal (unit of mass), a unit of mass
- Quartal and quintal harmony in music
- Quintal, Haute-Savoie, a commune of the Haute-Savoie département in France
- Stéphane Quintal, NHL ice hockey player
- Ryan Quintal, Lead Singer of The Double Yellow
Usage examples of "quintal".
Quintal, accompanied by a fair-haired lad named Ellison, and Millward, one of the three for whom Quintal had gone below--all in a state of suppressed excitement.
They were so well stored of biscuit, that for the space of halfe a yeere they might allow eche person in the whole fleete halfe a quintall every moneth, whereof the whole summe amounteth unto an hundreth thousand quintals.
Late the same evening he was reclining with Quintal on a mat spread before the doorstep.
Franklin Reynolds, of this town, crossed the Cannon-Ball Cabbage on the Schweinfurt Quintal, by carefully transferring the pollen of the former on the latter, the stamens having first been removed, and immediately tying muslin around the impregnated blossoms to keep away all insects.
From the rule already given, grams per quintal may be converted into ounces to the ton by multiplying by 0.
India ten quintals of the wood of aloes, a maid seven cubits in height, and a carpet softer than silk, the skin, as it was reported, of an extraordinary serpent.
Three was Christians, seven Youngs, three McCoys, two Mills, four Quintals, and there was two of my own.
Of a sudden Quintal seized her by the arm, pulling her into his lap, and gave her a bearlike hug, kissing her heartily.
He took the work with intense seriousness, and though by nature a kindly man, not inconsiderate of others, he now joined heartily with Quintal in forcing Te Moa to perform their daily tasks in the plantations and about the house.
I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury.
But she knew Quintal had killed her husband, and she was afeared she might take her revenge on him.
Quintal and McCoy worked on at making spirits, and before they was through they filled up every bottle we had, with a cag or two beside.
Paris consumes 8,000 quintals of meal daily, which expenditure alone amounts to 1,200 millions per annum.
Then I went back to where Quintal lay, and digged his grave with the axe I'd killed him with.