quintal

• With this loan for S / .2,300 Nuevos Soles, which will be repaid in 4 payments, she will buy 2 head of cattle at S / .900 each, and with the rest she will buy 3 quintals (a quintal is approximately 46 kg) of chili pepper at S / .180 per quintal. —  Kiva Loans
• She was jus' a common ordinary woman IX AN IDYL OF RICKITY TICKLE IX AN IDYL OF RICKITY TICKLE No fish at Whispering Islands: never a quintal--never so much as a fin--at Come-by-Chance; and no more than a catch of tom-cod in the hopeful places past Skeleton Point of Three Lost Souls. —  Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.
• The first quality is delivered in the ports of France at thirty-eight livres the quintal, the second at thirty-six livres, the third at thirty-four livres, weight and money of France, by individuals generally. —  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
• But the city of Rouen levies on it a duty of twenty sols the quintal, which is very sensible in its price, brings it dearer to the bleacheries near Paris, to those of Beauvais, Laval, etc., and to the glass works, and encourages them to give a preference to the potash or soude of other nations. —  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)
• Turpentine (_terebenthine_) pays ten sols the quintal, and ten sols the livre, making fifteen sols the quintal; which is ten per cent. —  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

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