quintal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: quintal	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
quintal n a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds Synonym(s): hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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}.] 1. A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. {Cental}. [Sometimes written and pronounced {kentle}.] 2. A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.