(n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.
(v. i.) Alt. of Maunder
Example Sentences:
(1) Ratan Miah's farm has yielded 17 maunds (traditional baskets) of the vegetable since the beginning of May – and he says the crops sold well at market.
(2) Aaron Maund may have been sent off just before half-time (denying Vicente Sánchez a goalscoring opportunity), but thanks to the likes of Nat Borchers and Kyle Beckerman RSL were able to deliver Nick Rimando a record-tying 112th career shutout.
(3) Days later, Mercy's mother Mwandida Maunde, Lucy's daughter, died, bleeding out from complications after the birth.
(4) The other farm in the region, owned by Babul Khan, has yielded only three maunds and more than half of his crops have died.
Maunder
Definition:
(v. i.) To beg.
(v. i.) To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently.
(v. t.) To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter.
(n.) A beggar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps he came with the intention of whipping up a controversy that his movie (a gorgeous, though maundering meditation on the end of the world) has singularly failed to provide.
(2) The film-maker maunders about inchoately in the documentary, showing a "different" slice of life, and at one stage trots out the extraordinary defence that if he hadn't done it, someone else would have.
(3) (1967) on 41 samples of fish, One Step Method, (Ahmad and Marolt (1986] on 86 samples of fish and Maunder et al.
(4) This scene is replayed across Britain each day: from the centre of Derby to the cluster of chicken factories owned by other companies in the Midlands, from Great Yarmouth to the Grampian production lines in East Anglia, from Exeter to the Lloyd Maunder factory in Devon where 18 nationalities work cutting and packing chicken for Sainsbury's.