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cantar|ˈkæntə(r)|
Often in the native forms ˈcantaro, ˈcantara.
[f. It., Sp. cantaro, cantara:—L. canthar-us, Gr. κάνθαρος tankard, drinking-pot.]
A measure of capacity and weight used in some of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, varying greatly according to the locality, from 743/4 lbs. in Rome to 5023/4 lbs. in Syria.
1730–6Bailey, Cantar [in Spain] wine measure, is about two gallons. Cantar [in Turky in Asia] 100 rotelloes, about 418 pounds averdupoise. Cantar [at Tunis] 114 pounds. 1773Brydone Sicily xvii. (1809) 186 Mortars..to throw a hundred cantars of cannon-ball or stones. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Cantara, cantaro, a liquid measure of Spain ranging from 2½ to 4 gallons. 1882Even. Standard 16 Sept. 5/2 The cotton crop is estimated at 2,000,000 cantars. 1887Pall Mall G. 24 June 12/1 Formerly twenty loaves [of sugar] went to the Moorish cantar, or hundredweight. |