noun
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A wicker basket.
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A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
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A handbasket with two lids.
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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.
Examples of maunds in a Sentence
The agricultural department has about 300 maunds (25,000 lb) of selected seed for distribution this year.
The agricultural department of the government of Bengal are now fully alive to the importance of fostering the jute industry by showing conclusively that attention to scientific agriculture will make two maunds of jute grow where only one maund grew before.
When received into the government stores the opium is kept in large wooden boxes holding about 50 maunds and occasionally stirred up, if only a little below the standard.