maund

plural maunds · alternative mand · alternative Scotland mande · alternative Scotland mawn · alternative Scotland mond

1. A wicker basket.
2. A unit of capacity with various specific local values.
3. regionalA handbasket with two lids.

plural maunds · alternative mun · alternative man

1. A unit of weight in south and west Asia, whose value varies widely by location.

   One mann or maund is approximately 37.32 kilograms.

   2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 146

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   Now the rail has come, and the fire-carriage says buz-buz-buz, and a hundred lakhs of maunds slide across that big bridge.

   1888, Rudyard Kipling, “In Flood Time”, in In Black and White, Folio Society, published 2005, page 410

1. archaicuncountableBegging.

present singular third person maunds · participle present maunding · participle past maunded · past maunded

1. archaicTo beg.

   He maunds Abram, he begs as a madde man.

   c. 1608–1610, Samuel Rid, Martin Mark-all, Beadle of Bridewell

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   You must hereafter maund on your own pads

   c. 1622, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger [et al.?], “Beggars Bush”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)

2. obsoleteTo mutter; to mumble or speak incoherently; to maunder.

1. A surname.