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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pecul \Pec"ul\, n.
See {Picul}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Picul \Pic"ul\, n. [Jav. & Malay pikul, fr pikul to carry on
the back to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.]
A commercial weight varying in different countries and for
different commodities. In Borneo it is 1355/8 lbs.; in China
and Sumatra, 1331/2 lbs.; in Japan, 1331/3 lbs.; but
sometimes 130 lbs., etc Called also by the Chinese, {tan}.
[Written also {pecul}, and {pecal}.]
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