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Wo vs Quintal - What's the difference?

wo | quintal |

As nouns the difference between wo and quintal

is that wo is while quintal is a measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.

As an interjection wo

is a falconer's call to a hawk.

wo

English

(wikipedia wo)

Alternative forms

* whoa

Etymology 1

Variant of who .

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • A falconer's call to a hawk.
  • A call to cause a horse to slow down or stop; whoa.

    • Etymology 2

    Variant of woe .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1815 , Philip Freneau, A collection of poems, on American affairs and a variety of other subjects , page 82[http://books.google.com/books?id=BAkUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA82]:
    • Such feeble arms, to work internal wo !
  • * (Hannah More)
    • But if there was a competition between a sick family and a new broach, the broach was sure to carry the day. This would not have been the case, had they been habituated to visit themselves the abodes of penury and wo .

    Anagrams

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    quintal

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.
  • * 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, page 204:
    • 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.
  • One hundred kilograms.