Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Picul

Picul , noun

[Jav. & Malay pikul, from pikul to carry on the back, to carry a burden; n., a man's burden.]

A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135⅝ lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133½ lbs.; in Japan, 133⅓ lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan.