quintals

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Published: 1973
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67279

quintal n .[the French] have also salt, and some fishing craft, cheaper than us; and generally kill one or two hundred quintals _per_ boat more than the _English_ kill:. [Thomas Thompson, 1711, Considerations on the Trade to Newfoundland] PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit G.M. Story FEB 1973 JH FEB 1973 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I 'cantal', 'kental', 'quintel', 'kantle', 'kintal(l)', 'kentalls','kentals', 'Quintal drum', '`fish drum', 'quintal faggot', '`drum', 'quintal of seals', 'quintals of bread'