One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to twenty of one's own, and likewise a single PICUL of his provender is equivalent to twenty from one's own store.
The dealer with capital advanced at, say, 6 or 7 pesos per picul "on joint account up to Manila.
He further proposed as a fair likin tax forty taels per picul (though certain that the Chinese did not get more than 30) on all Indian opium, that brought to Hongkong included.
Where, then, was our picul of rice, and our curry, and our sugar?
The meat from an average specimen was carefully dried and we found that one hundred fifty-six such nuts would make a picul of copra.
A common estimate of the average number of nuts required for a picul is three hundred.
Later, the price was advanced; until about 1900 the government paid fifteen florins per picul for coffee in parchment.
It was also compulsory to deliver the coffee cleaned and sorted to the official godowns, and to sell the crop at fixed prices--nine to twelve florins per picul previous to 1874, although forty to fifty florins were offered in the open market.
Breaking out a piculof hemp" is analogous, colloquially, to "picking a bale of cotton.
The picul is here one hundred and thirty-seven pounds, Spanish, or one hundred and forty pounds, English.
The money advanced is always gauged by the price per picul that coffee brought the year before in the Manila market.
In the Chinese markets, a picul of Munang is worth 15 to 25 dollars.
The price is about 800 Spanish dollars per picul in cash; but in exchange for blue or white cloth, powder, arms, flint, etc.
On every picul of rice supplied to the planters twenty to twenty-five cents commission is charged; this includes the interest of money advanced, which is never charged.
If a piculof gambier realizes 1½ dollars, the monthly pay will be about three dollars; if gambier fetches two dollars, their pay will amount to four dollars in the month.
In these cases an industrious workman may obtain as much as onepicul in a week.
The mode of cleaning it of its seed is very rude, by means of a hand-mill, and the expense of cleaning a picul (one hundred and forty pounds) is from five to seven dollars.
During my stay exceptionally low prices ruled--sixteen and one-half reals per picul undelivered.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picul" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
