hundredweight
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviation): cwt.
Etymology
Noun
hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)
- A measure of weight containing 100 pounds (45.5 kg) in the U.S. or 112 pounds (51 kg) in the United Kingdom.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 209:
- The hundredweight of 112 avoirdupois lbs. becomes general in the period before me, and is employed for the commoner kinds of materials.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, p. 209:
Translations
measure of weight (some may be only approximately equivalent)
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