Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9316

1610.—“He was found . . . to have sixtie *maunes* in Gold, and euery *maune* is five and fiftie pound weight.”—*Hawkins*, in *Purchas*, i. 218.