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pollum

pollum noun: a historic unit of weight used in India, equal to 1 ounce plus 3.25 drams.

Noun

pollum (plural pollums)

  1. (obsolete) A historic unit of weight used in India, equal to 1 ounce plus 3.25 drams.
    • For this kind of work, and for the quantity of lime above mentioned, about ten pollums (the pollum ten pagodas weight) of sugar is commonly used.1799 April 1, James Anderson, Recreations in Agriculture, Natural-History, Arts, and Miscellaneous Literature, page 6
    • In the District south of Quilon to Tavallay, a Five Pollum weight is used for weighing cotton, thread, tamarinds, jagherry, &c. which weight answers to 5848.3 gr. and is thus divided […]1831, P. Kelly, The Universal Cambist and Commercial Instructor

Forms of pollum

pluralpollums

Questions about pollum

What does pollum mean?
Pollum means a historic unit of weight used in India, equal to 1 ounce plus 3.25 drams.
What part of speech is pollum?
Pollum is a noun.
What is the plural of pollum?
The plural of pollum is pollums.

Words near pollum in the dictionary

  1. polltaker
  2. polltakers
  3. polltaking
  4. pollucite
  5. pollucites
  6. pollum
  7. pollums
  8. polluosensitive
  9. polluosensitivity
  10. pollusion
  11. pollusions

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