(historical) A unit of weight in southern and western Asia, whose value varied widely by location. Two maunds made one chest of opium in East India. One maund equalled 136 pounds of opium in Turkey.
“The mental, fuzzy-wuzzy maunderings and meanderings of the mob fascinated him.”
“My dear Mayenne, none punishes the maunderings of the court jester.”
“This, Daughtry got from him, and nothing else did he get save maunderings and ravings about the heat of the longboat and the treasure a fathom deep under the sand.”