英语词汇“tola”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

tola

释义

▪ I. ‖ tola¹ East Ind.|ˈtəʊlə|
Also 7 tolla; anglicized tole, toll; 9 tolah.
[Hindī tola:—Skr. tuˈlā balance, scale, weight, f. tul- to weigh.]
An East Indian weight, chiefly used for gold or silver, varying at different times and places; (from 1833) in British dominions fixed at 180 grains (the weight of the rupee). Also, a coin of this weight.
1614Purchas Pilgrimage v. xvii. (ed. 2) 544 Euery Tole is a Rupia of siluer, and tenne of those Toles is the value of one of golde.1618in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) 47, 52½ tole make a seere of 30 pices.1683W. Hedges Diary (Hakl. Soc.) I. 83 They..tooke from them 4 or 5 tolas upon a Seer, over weight, on all their Silk brought into y⊇ Ware⁓house.1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. iii. 18 All Gold and Silver is weighed by the Tole.1800Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 45/1 Each of these persons shall pay a fixed revenue of a tola of gold to the Rajah.1803Greville in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 203 note, A tolah is about 180 grains, Troy weight.189519th Cent. Aug. 255, I placed a piece of gold, weighing a tola, on his lap.
▪ II. tola²|ˈtəʊlə|
[a. ntola, name used in Zaïre.]
= agba.
1897M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. iii. 58 The Bubi... His idea of decoration goes in the direction of a plaster of ‘tola’ pomatum over his body.1959Archit. Rev. CXXVI. 313 The table top and chair seats are covered with black imitation leather; the chair backs are of tola.1962House & Garden Jan. 45/2 (caption) 3-drawer desk in tola wood.

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