Also 6 farazuola, frasoll, 7 frasslee. [mod.Arab. fārsalah, pl. farāsulah; by some scholars thought to be of Romanic origin: cf. PARCEL.] A weight varying from 12 to 35 pounds, used in the East.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 268. The farazuola (which is xxii. poundes and syxe vnces).
1599. Hakluyt, Voy., II. I. 273. Which barre, as well as great as litle, is 20 frasoli, and euery frasoll is 10 manas.
1698. J. Fryer, A New Account of East-India and Persia, 211. The Weights by which they are bought, are Baharrs and Frasslees; each Baharr 20 Frasslees, each Frasslee 12l.
1866. Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. ix. 228. An old man was pointed out to me who had once carried five frasilahs (= 175 lbs.) of ivory from his own country to the coast.
