Definitions for picul

picul pic·ul

Spelling: [pik-uh l]
IPA: /ˈpɪk əl/

Picul is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in picul (cilpu).

Definitions for picul

noun

  1. (in China and southeast Asia) a weight equal to 100 catties, or from about 133 to about 143 pounds avoirdupois (60–64 kg).

Origin of picul

First recorded in 1580-90, picul is from the Malay word pikull the maximum load a man can carry

Examples for picul

The price of this manure varies with the quality from one dollar to three dollars the picul.

In these cases an industrious workman may obtain as much as one picul in a week.

A common estimate of the average number of nuts required for a picul is three hundred.

This is divided between the two houses, and the price they pay is from four to five dollars the picul.

It takes eight cabanes measure (vide p. 276) of fresh-picked ripe berries to turn out one picul weight of clean beans.

For instance, if it then cost $12 a picul, $8 will be advanced to the planter on the crops in the ground.

In the Chinese markets, a picul of Munang is worth 15 to 25 dollars.

The quantity of mother-of-pearl-shell, communibus annis, sold there is two thousand piculs, at six dollars a picul.

Rice of foreign importation is weighed and quoted by the picul of 133⅓ lbs.

At Pulo Penang the picul of ripe cocoa-nuts, 300, is worth 5 1⁄2 dollars.

Word Value for picul
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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