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Maund   /mɔnd/   Listen
Maund

noun
1.
A unit of weight used in Asia; has different values in different countries.





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"Maund" Quotes from Famous Books



... brings it into the factory threshing ground, where it is beaten out, cleaned, weighed, and packed in bags. When the seed has been threshed out and cleaned, it is weighed, and the ryot or cultivator gets four rupees for every maund—a maund being eighty pounds avoirdupois. The previous advance is deducted. The rent or loan account is adjusted, and the balance made over ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis


Words linked to "Maund" :   weight unit, weight


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