1. A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
   "The grain silo could hold 500 quintals"
    
2. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
   "The farmer sold his produce by the short quintal";
   - hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental [archaic]

Derived forms: quintals

Type of: avoirdupois unit, metric weight unit, weight unit

Part of: metric ton, MT, net ton, short ton, t, ton, tonne

Encyclopedia: Quintal, John