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- noun Plural form of
cantar .
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Examples
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A cantar of dates varies from fifteen to twenty-five shillings, say on an average a pound sterling; this will make the amount of the 500 camel-loads at five cantars per load £2,500
Travels in Morocco 2003
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Upwards of 9000 cantars (about 375 tons) are brought down every year from the mountains of Fundada Cungiata and Genargentu, and carried on horseback to all parts of the island.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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I now weighed all my baggage, and found that I had fifty-four cantars
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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A good season for a party of a hundred and fifty men should produce about two hundred cantars (20,000 lbs.) of ivory, valued at Khartoum at
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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I guaranteed him 100 cantars (10,000 pounds) if he would push on at all hazards with me to Kamrasi and secure me porters from
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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Kamrasi's country should belong to ME; not an act of felony would be permitted; all were to be under my government, and I would insure him at least 100 cantars of tusks.
In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857
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The weight the camel carries is from two to three cantars.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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Fifty cantars were collected the first year, and last year some two hundred.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 James Richardson 1828
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For ten yards of good red cloth, they had one bahar of cloves, containing four cantars or quintals and six pounds; the cantar being 100 pounds.
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79 A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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