Quintal - Wikipedia The quintal or centner is a historical unit of mass in many countries that is usually defined as 100 base units, such as pounds or kilograms [1] It is a traditional unit of weight in France, Portugal, and Spain and their former colonies
quintal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary quintal (an unofficial metric unit of mass equal to exactly 100 kg) (chiefly historical) quintal, Spanish hundredweight (a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 100 libras, or about 46 kg)
What are the units called a quintal? - Sizes In British colonies in North America, at least as early as 18th – 19th century, the quintal used for fish was a unit of mass, 112 pounds (the British hundredweight)