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Definition of Maunds
1. maund [n] - See also: maund
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maunds
Literary usage of Maunds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"Thoy included 1221 ponies and mules, 21363 cattle, 103 sheep and goats ; 30287
maunds of canes and rattans ; 26263Z. of Chinese and Japanese ware ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"The relative amount of business done with the neighbouring Districts is shown by
the following figures: — Imports from Rangpur, 830000 maunds of jute, ..."
3. A Statistical Account of Assam by William Wilson Hunter (1879)
"(including potatoes), 123108 maunds, value ^36932; oil seeds, 56826 maunds,
value ^22730; tea, ... 137800 maunds of rice, 7000 of paddy, and 3400 of jute; ..."
4. Our Faithful Ally, the Nizam: Being an Historical Sketch of Events, Showing by Hastings Fraser (1865)
"In second-rate black soil the yield of the same extent of land is thirty-six
maunds, or 432 seers, and in third-rate soil it is thirty-two maunds, ..."
5. A Treatise on Hemp, Including a Comprehensive Account of the Best Modes of by Robert Wissett (1808)
"On an average about two maunds and a quarter per began, or six maunds and three
quarters per acre; about four hundred-weight. ..."
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