Pie'ul, n.

[Written also pecul and pecal.] [Jav. & Malay. pikul, from pikul, to carry on the back, to carry a burden; a man's burden.] A weight of 133⅓ lbs., divided into 100 catties, or 1600 taels;—called also, by the Chinese, tan. [Chin.] Malcom.