BAHAR, or BARRE, in commerce, weights used in several places in the East Indies.
There are two of these weights, one the great bahar, with which they weigh pepper, cloves, nutmegs, ginger, &c. and contains five hundred and fifty pounds of Portugal, or about five hundred and twenty-four pounds nine ounces avoirdupois weight. With the little bahar, they weigh quicksilver, vermilion, ivory, silk, &c. It contains about four hundred and thirty-seven pounds nine ounces avoirdupois weight.