Picul

noun

1. Any of various units of weight used in southeast Asia and China and equal to 100 catties, especially a Chinese unit equal to 133 ¹/₃ pounds (about 60 kilograms).
2. A weight in use in China and the East generally, containing 100 kin or catties, and equal to about 133⅛ pounds avoirdupois. By the Chinese it is called <internalXref urlencoded="tan">tan</internalXref>.
3. A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 1355/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 1331/2 lbs.; in Japan, 1331/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, <altname>tan</altname>.
4. A <xref>traditional</xref> <xref>Asian</xref> <xref>unit</xref> of <xref>weight</xref>, as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole.
5. a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)