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quintals

n. (plural of quintal English)

Usage examples of "quintals".

When I went on board ship with the Bailo Jean Dona, I found another case given to me by him, containing two quintals of the best Mocha coffee, one hundred pounds of tobacco leaves, two large flagons filled, one with Zabandi tobacco, the other with camussa, and a magnificent pipe tube of jessamine wood, covered with gold filigrane, which I sold in Corfu for one hundred sequins.

Three was Christians, seven Youngs, three McCoys, two Mills, four Quintals, and there was two of my own.

I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury.