picul
/pik-uhl/US // ˈpɪk əl //UK // (ˈpɪkəl) //
皮克尔,皮卡,皮库,皮克
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois.
Examples
Later, the price was advanced; until about 1900 the government paid fifteen florins per picul for coffee in parchment.
It was purchased by the picul of 133-1/2 pounds, the price varying from eight to ten dollars for the picul.
The picul is here one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, Spanish, or one hundred and forty pounds, English.
Its price is very high, being 460 taels per picul or chest, while native opium is only 350 taels, including transit dues.
In these cases an industrious workman may obtain as much as one picul in a week.
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