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BAHAR

Volume 1 · 90 words · 1771 Edition

or Bakre, 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.

BACHAREN, an island in the Persian gulf, in 50° E. long. and 26° N. lat.