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‖ kantar|kænˈtɑː(r)|
Also 7 kintar, 7– cantar.
[Arab. qintār, pl. qanātīr, ad. (prob. through Syriac) L. centēnārium centenary n.1 In OF. quantar, canter, med.L. cantār(i)um (Du Cange), It. cantáro. The form qintār is represented by OF. quintar, Sp. and F. quintal, quintal.
(Sp. cántara, cántaro, a wine-measure, is unconnected.)]
A weight, properly 100 (Arabic) pounds, but varying considerably in different parts of the Mediterranean; also, a vessel containing this weight of any article.
1555Eden Decades 229 One Cantar is a hundreth pounde weight. 1615W. Bedwell Arab. Trudg. N ij b, s.v. Rethl, Now an hundred Rethels do make a Cantar, or Kintar as some do pronounce it, that is an hundred weight. 1773Brydone Sicily xvii. (1809) 186 Mortars to throw a hundred cantars of cannon-ball or stones. 1802–3tr. Pallas's Trav. (1812) I. 488 Vessels sailing under the Turkish flag are paid about one-third less for their freight, computed per Kantar. 1894Times 6 Nov. 5/6 The Egyptian cotton crop is estimated at nearly 5,500,000 kantars (the kantar = 99 lb.). |