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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms;

2. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds;
[syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.] [1913 Webster] 2. A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100 kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

quintal n 1: a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms 2: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal]