Definitions for piculs

piculs pic·ul

Spelling: [pik-uh l]
IPA: /ˈpɪk əl/

Piculs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in piculs (cilpsu).

Definitions for piculs

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 piculs

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

Examples for piculs

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

9

Words with friends

13

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