picul

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noun a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)

From Malay pikul, with influence from earlier Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese pico.

The quantity of mother-of-pearl-shell, communibus annis, sold there is two thousand piculs, at six dollars a picul. — The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido: For the Suppression of Piracy, Henry, Sir Keppel
Those cured by the sun are worth the most; but where one picul (133 1/3 lbs.) can be cured that way, I can cure thirty piculs by the fire. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe

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