The threshing-floor, and seed-cleaning ground presents a busy sight when several thousand maunds of seed are being got ready for despatch by boats.
Two maunds are put in every sack, and when weighed the bags are hauled up close to the godown or store-room.
About 5,000 maunds are exported annually from Calcutta.
In the upper provinces the produce of the best crop, which is sown directly the rains commence, is not more then ten maunds per biggah.
From one to four seers are sown on a biggah of land, and the yield is about four maundsper acre.
One thousand maunds of plant are considered as producing quite an average quantity of indigo if this amounts to four maunds.
In the western provinces from sixteen to twenty maunds of plant is considered a good produce per biggah.
It has been known so cheap as seven and eight maunds (equal to seven cwt.
I have not a doubt but that half a million of maunds might be annually collected, if proper encouragement were held out, and a sale insured to the adventurers, at any particular towns in the several districts where bees are abundant.
There had been twelvemaunds of rice prepared, and he left none.
The cheat carried his treasure home, but being unable to count so much money borrowed a measure from his father-in-law, and found he had four maunds of silver.
I saw in Gumda's house twelve maunds of cooked rice, and he threw a loaf of bread weighing eight maundsat me, which almost crushed me to death.
I go to receive eight maunds of silver for her corpse.
As he was leaving the house he saw 12 maunds of cooked rice, evidently intended for Gumda's dinner.
On returning the measure he sent along with it five seers of silver, saying, "For the ashes of my house I received four maunds of silver, if you reduce your houses to ashes and sell them, you will obtain very much more.
He invited the messenger to be seated, and he also sat down as if to eat, but instead of eating the bread, he began to throw it at the man, and continued doing so until he had buried him under eight maunds of loaves.
He gave her husband six maunds of rupees as hush money, so the cheat burnt the corpse and returned home laden with spoil.
One and a quarter maunds of firewood hast thou placed within it.
How many maunds of butter hast thou poured upon it that the fire billows rise in the air?
One and a quarter maunds of butter hast thou poured into the trench that the fire billows rise to the sky.
Seven cubits long is the trench; seven maunds of firewood hast thou placed within it.
Kasi, being an important official, receives from the Bhutan Government forty maunds of barley and forty maunds of rice annually.
Later, when the line was extended to Gyantse, not more than 100 maunds a day reached the front.
A hundred and forty maunds of inferior gunpowder was destroyed, and the arms now litter the courtyard.
His eyes slowly surveyed the room, glanced over his office table, with its pen and ink and blank paper, lit on the 150 maunds of cast-steel, and finally rested on two volumes by his elbow.
Behold, for us the naked Graces stay With maunds of roses for to strew the way: Besides, the most religious prophet stands Ready to join, as well our hearts as hands.
In country meadows pearl'd with dew, And set about with lilies, There, filling maunds with cowslips, you May find your Amaryllis.
Of this we used seventy maunds daily, and so had only a few days in reserve.
But after a great show of meaning business, and a few threats of stronger measures in the background, you probably got, say, fifty maunds of tsampa from a proper storeroom which the lamas had previously refrained from showing you.
We used over two hundred maunds a day, or more than a hundred mule loads, and so could not start our march with many days' supply in reserve without excluding other things that also had to be carried.
Wherever you can get two maunds of wine, Set to, and drink it like a libertine; Whoso acts thus will set his spirit free From saintly airs like yours, and grief like mine.
One year ago, threemaunds of barley, and four of wheat were sold for a rupee.
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.
Khojeh Meer says that he has no more grain: we only got 50 maunds in to-day.
Also on every hundred maunds being delivered, we are to lay down a bag of 1500 rupees as a present.
In this fort were stored 8000 maunds of ottah and wheat.
The chiefs promised, as soon as they were in possession of our forts, to give us grain; and about half an hour after our garrisons were withdrawn 155 maunds of otta and a small quantity of bhoosa was brought in.
We have thereby lost 900 maunds of ottah, which was paid for.
Ottah is ready for us at the Bala Hissar, and the chief of Behmaru has tendered his civilities again, now that Meer Musjudee's people have retired from the village; but our 900 maunds of grain that were paid for are gone.
There were 1600 maunds of wheat to be conveyed to cantonments, and the packing and loading were more than a day’s work.
Sixty-five maunds is all that has been got in to-day; twelve maunds yesterday.
About six hundred maundsof wheat, found in one of the forts yesterday, captured and brought into cantonments.
I also forced the unfriendly Chitonoma clan of Kohima to surrender six rifles they had captured, and to pay a fine of 200 maunds of rice.
The Mozuma people told us that the Konoma men had never contemplated the possibility of being driven out, and that they had stored up 2000 maunds of rice which had fallen into our hands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "maunds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
