Sentence:  5 oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the <WSD>oke</WSD> is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the <WSD>oke</WSD> is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.