picul

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 contract of sale forbade, under bond penalty, disposition of the rice at a price greater than $6.50 Mexican per picul of 137 pounds, plus actual cost of freight.

Under HB 2722, effective on the sugar crop year of 2019-2020, a lien of P10 per picul of sugar, instead of P5, shall be imposed on the gross production of sugar to primarily augment the income of sugar workers, and to finance social and economic programs to improve their livelihood and well-being.

For example, in April of that year, around one month before the manufacturing season was due to commence, Maclaine Watson reported that although the NHM Factorij had intervened in the market to the extent of buying some 15,000 picul [one picul equals 61.76 kilo] the upcoming crop from 'their mills' for around 14.75 guilders per picul, and 'although buyers have retired meanwhile from the market, planters continue to retain high ideas for the future and are unwilling to sell their crop even at the above rate'.

Each maka'ainana laborer was expected to carry as much as 1 picul (or 133 1/3 pounds) of sandalwood.

In the face of Lord Cui's display of modesty, the elders prove themselves to be rather witty and quick-minded as they uncover and elaborate the meaning of the word shi in its double sense of "rock" and "picul."

His four sons imitated him and, since the five of them occupied high posts that earned each the maximum salary of two thousand piculs a year, he was called - punning on his family name, Shi, which also means "picul" (equivalent to around 30 kg under the Former Han) - "Lord of Ten Thousand Piculs." In 139 B.C., thanks to the perfect Confucian bearing of the entire family, the eldest son, Shi Jian, was appointed to an important post at court.