, the weight of a hundred pounds, in most countries; but in England it is the hundred weight, or 112 pounds. Quintal was also formerly used for a weight of lead, iron, or other common metal, usually equal to a hundred pounds, at 6 score to the hundred.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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