Manila does not recede below 3 dollars per pecul of 140 lbs.
Receiving, bagging and shipping, 20 cents per pecul (no boat hire is incurred at Iloilo) 3.
The East India Company pays from thirteen to sixty tales per pecul for their teas; some tea of a higher price is purchased by individuals, but seldom or ever by the Company.
A tale is six shillings and eight-pence, and a pecul is one hundred and thirty-three pounds and one third.
All sugar is sold to the export merchants by the pecul of 140 lbs.
The hand-spun rope never sells so well as that made by machinery, and is usually obtainable at from one to two dollars per pecul less than the latter, according as it is well or ill spun.
But the Chinese, among themselves, know no difference, either in the weight of a pecul for different articles, or in the tael, whether used for money or goods.
The Portuguese at Macao, have a pecul for weighing cotton, and valuable articles; a second for coarse goods; and again, a different one for rice.
The weights are the same as in China, being the pecul and catty; one hundred catties making one pecul; one catty, one and a third pounds avoirdupois.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pecul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
