Quintal vs Quintan - What's the difference?
quintal | quintan |
A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, page 204:
One hundred kilograms.
As a noun quintal
is a measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.As an adjective quintan is
recurring after four days (every five days.quintal
English
Noun
(en noun)- In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.