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Definition of Cantars
1. cantar [n] - See also: cantar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantars
Literary usage of Cantars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1842)
"5000 cantars are sent to different parts of Anatolia, (ie Asia Minor,) a large
... In the Nabulus district, in Palestine, 4500 to 5000 cantars are annually ..."
2. Transactions of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (1908)
"Total, cantars, 6949,ooo The total average yield per Feddan or acre, was therefore
can- tars ... (For lower Egypt it was cantars 4.68 and for Upper Egypt ..."
3. A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various by John Ramsay McCulloch, Frederick Martin (1866)
"Aleppo receives about 250 cantars from Antioch, and other quarters. Its chief
consumption there is in the manufacture of the cotton and silk goods used for ..."
4. Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries by United States Bureau of Manufactures, United States (1874)
"From 1853 to 1802 the following quantities were exported to Europe, viz: 29270
cantars in 1853; 20043 in 1854; 24056 in 1855 ; 14.237 in 185« ; 24000 in ..."
5. Fisher's National Magazine and Industrial Record by Redwood Fisher (1846)
"All these mills, where the cotton spun is the growth of Naples and Sicily, contain
29500 spindles, which produce yearly 9900 cantars (1940000 Ibs.) of yarn, ..."
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