Hume once demolished one of these vulturine nurseries and found that it weighed over eight maunds, that is to say about six hundredweight. ❋ Douglas Dewar (1916)
"Quemander, or caimander, to beg; or goe a begging; to beg from doore to doore" (Cotgrave), but it may mean a maker of "maunds," i.e. baskets. ❋ Ernest Weekley (1909)
They valued their export business at 30,000 maunds per year which, at 95 pounds to a maund, comes to two million seven hundred thousand pounds. ❋ Unknown (2008)
In the official tabrizi state weight scheme 2.5 chittacks equaled 1 maund and 100 maunds equaled one kharwar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The system of weight used by ordinary consumers in retail settings, in at least Jalalabad and Laghman, worked with 1 charak equal to 16 khurds, 4 charaks equal to 1 seer or dhari, 8 seers equal to 1 maund, 10 maunds equal to 1 kharwar. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One official Kabuli maund equaled 4 seers and 14.5 chittacks British Indian standard weight, and a tabrizi kharwar equaled 12 maunds, 10 seers, and 10 chittacks British Indian standard weight. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
They arose in a context that was unfavorable to the British, namely, the failed transport of twenty thousand maunds of grain from Qandahar to the Ghazni vicinity where Shuja was bunkered. ❋ Unknown (2008)
British officials indicated that the ability of the Lohanis to transfer thirty thousand maunds of grain from Dera Ismail Khan to Kabul depended on whether the Ghalzis decided to support Shuja. 95 And although the Ghalzis generally did not support Shuja or his colonial patrons during the first British invasion and occupation, it was reported that Sarwar Khan successfully traversed the Ghalzi impasse between Qandahar and Kabul. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One ordinary Kabuli seer equaled 7 seers 13.5 chittacks British Indian standard weight, and therefore one ordinary Kabuli kharwar equaled 15 maunds 27 seers and 8 chittacks British Indian standard weight. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is not that food is considered in the mass, as so many kilos of this or so many maunds of that; no, the centre of attention is something like the quality of pizza in particular places – the sourness of this joint, the sweetness of the other one. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The king of England was formerly accustomed on Maundy Thursday to have brought before him as many poor men as he was years old, whose feet he washed with his own hands, after which his majesty's maunds, consisting of meat, clothes, and money, were distributed amongst them. ❋ John (2004)
Put all the grain into the Tapan Gam's hands, amounting to 60 maunds. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
China and Bombay, some goes to Persia; the roots are occasionally dug up after two years, but the better practise is to allow them five to seven: the price is six Hindostanee maunds for a rupee. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
The quantity obtained from one tree has not exactly been ascertained; by some it is stated to be as much as four or five maunds, while others say that a moderate tree will only yield one gurrah full, or about ten seers. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Four neighbouring forts were immediately evacuated by the enemy, and occupied by our troops: they were found to contain 1400 maunds of grain, of which about one-half was removed into cantonments immediately; but ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus they may say forty maunds (3200 lbs.) of sugar and flour, with butter, spices, and other articles in proportion. ❋ R. V. Russell (N/A)
Some idea may be formed of the extent to which it is procurable, when from the mere outskirts of the forest, 300 maunds of juice may be collected in one month. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Durrung may be estimated at 13,000 maunds of the caoutchouc itself, assuming Dr. Roxburgh's proportion of one to three to be nearly correct. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Taking the number of trees at 20,000, and the produce of each from four bleedings at two maunds, the annual supply that may be obtained from ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
One year ago, three maunds of barley, and four of wheat were sold for a rupee. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
[Mr]. [Dickins] is so sound, we [might as well] call him Kevin Maund ❋ Abstractlakx (2018)
Look at that [maund], its Big and [green] and smells of [bananas].. ❋ Olly (2004)
