In Thailand, 20th century, a unit of mass, = 60 kilograms.
In Sylhet, India, 19th century, (now in Bangladesh), a unit of land area.
Hal: a plough; also, a measure of land in Sylhet : it is also used in the Mirath Zila as a nominal division of village lands equivalent to the division by biswas.
H. H. Wilson, 1855, page 578.
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