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‖ ˈfrasilah
Also 6 farazuola, frasoll, 7 frasslee.
[mod.Arab. fārsalah, pl. farāsulah; by some scholars thought to be of Romanic origin: cf. parcel.]
A weight varying from 12 to 35 pounds, used in the East.
1555Eden Decades 239 The farazuola (which is xxii. poundes and syxe vnces). 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. i. 273 Which barre..is 20 frasoli, and euery frasoll is 10 manas. 1698Fryer Acc. E. Ind. & P. 211 The Weights by which they are bought, are Baharrs and Frasslees; each Baharr 20 Frasslees, each Frasslee 12l. 1866Livingstone Last Jrnls. (1873) I. ix. 228 An old man..had once carried five trasilahs (= 175 lbs.) of ivory. |