Ultimately, to my infinite regret, Maundfound himself obliged to depart to fulfil an engagement elsewhere, but I still held on, though the conviction was daily becoming stronger that the rain would go on till the winter snows came.
Oakley Maund and I came back to Chamouni we had very serious intentions.
When the seed has been threshed out and cleaned, it is weighed, and the ryot or cultivator gets four rupees for every maund--a maund being eighty pounds avoirdupois.
If prices are ruling high, they may get much more than four rupees per maund for it, and they adopt all kinds of ingenious devices to adulterate the seed, and increase its weight.
For mail bags and parcels sent in luggage vans in charge of Railway guards the amount to be paid by the Postal Department shall be 1 pie per maund per mile.
When the ferry service is over 10 miles and reserved sorting accommodation is not required or provided on board, the charge shall be separately calculated at the rate of 1 pie per maund per mile.
The other answers he has eaten nothing for nine; whereupon the nine-maund ganja-eater suggests they shall wait till they get back to his country, as in the jungle they will have no spectators.
So the nine-maund ganja-eater takes up all the sugar-cane he has cut during the last seven days and sets off for his country with his rival.
But that in retail sale "the average price of salt per maund (82 lbs.
The factory maund of indigo in India is about 78 lbs.
The factory maund is equal to about seventy-eight pounds.
In Almorah a maundof rice or mundooa sells for something less than a rupee; barley for eight annas; and wheat for a rupee.
This man is of so much authority, that meeting with any of his profession, he may cal them to accompt, & commaund a share or snap vnto him selfe, of al that they haue gained by their trade in one moneth.
He may also commaund any of their women, which they cal Doxies, to serue his turne.
Tower ye yander is the kene, dup the gygger, and maund that is bene shyp.
About thirty-five years ago, salt used to be sold at a rupee, or a rupee and a half, per factory maund of 72lb.
About thirty-two years ago, the common raw sugar, known by the name of g’hoor, was to be had at three rupees per maund of 96lb.
Within the last twenty years, a few Europeans have established manufactories of wax-candles, which often sell for eighty rupees per maund (82lb).
I have seen one measuring more than eight feet in length, and various others that weighed full a maund (82lb.
In consequence of the great demand for the article, it rose gradually, but in comparatively a very short time, to eight rupees the maund of 72lb.
The Arabs now convey immense quantities of fine coffee from Mocha to every part of India; but they sell it at a high price, generally from forty to sixty rupees, or even more, per maund of 82lb.
Mrs Maund has enabled me to quote from a striking article by her late husband.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maund" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
