puhekieltä A measure of weight originally equal to a hundred pounds; later, a hundredweight.
2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, page 204:
In one import license alone, the merchant in question was instructed to bring in 13,000 quintals of alum, which, snapped up by industries in England and the Low Countries, would yield the king a cool £8,666 13s 4d.