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maunds

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  1. A wicker basket.
  2. A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
  3. A handbasket with two lids.

noun

  1. A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.

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