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pollums

pollums is the plural of pollum.

Meaning of pollum

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

Questions about pollums

What is pollums the plural of?
Pollums is the plural of pollum.

Words near pollums in the dictionary

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

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