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单词 carga
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cargan.1

Forms: In 1700s cargo, cargau.
Etymology: < Spanish carga load, cognate with French charge , Italian carica , < caricare , in late Latin carricāre to load: see charge n., cargo n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcarga.
A ‘load’ as a measure of weight (see quots.).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > load as unit of weight
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cark1473
carga1622
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo i. iv. 26 They account also by Cargaos of 400 ll smal weight.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Weight At Antwerp..The carga, or charge, 400 l., which is two Bales of 200 l. each, for an Horse to carry.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 199 Each Cargau 81 Pound Weight.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Cargo also denotes a weight used in Spain and Turky, amounting to about 300 English pounds.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vi. 458 Two hundred cargas or loads of gold.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

cargan.2

Etymology: < Spanish carga charge.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcarga.
Obsolete.
(See quot. 1625).
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1625 G. Markham Souldiers Accidence 60 [Of] the Sounds and Commands of the Trumpet..(which we generally call Poynts of Warre) there are sixe:..The fift is Carga, Carga, or an alarum, Charge, Charge which sounded, every man (like Lightning) flyes vpon his enemie.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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