Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An Arabian and Turkish unit of weight, a hundred rotls or pounds.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A weight used in southern Europe and East for heavy articles. It varies in different localities; thus, at Rome it is nearly 75 pounds, in Sardinia nearly 94 pounds, in Cairo it is 95 pounds, in Syria about 503 pounds.
  • noun A liquid measure in Spain, ranging from two and a half to four gallons.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of kantar.

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Examples

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • The word cantar, does not necessarily mean sing but to speak to the heavens in such a way that it will appear as a song too doves ears who will flock from the heavens to meet his loved one.

    Why we need translations on this forum 2008

  • 79 A camel-load is about five cantars, and a cantar is a hundred weight.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • An older vaquero is mentoring a hot-headed younger vaquero, they engage in arm-wrestling, sword fighting, who can cantar better, etc.

    Cine Cl�sico 2009

  • An older vaquero is mentoring a hot-headed younger vaquero, they engage in arm-wrestling, sword fighting, who can cantar better, etc.

    Cine Cl�sico 2009

  • An older vaquero is mentoring a hot-headed younger vaquero, they engage in arm-wrestling, sword fighting, who can cantar better, etc.

    Cine Cl�sico 2009

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