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Definition of Hundredweight

Hundredweight
Cental Cen"tal, n. [L. centum a hundred.] A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.
Hundredweight
Hundredweight Hun"dred*weight`, n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.

Meaning of Hundredweight from wikipedia

- The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and United States customary unit of...
- ton are defined as 20 hundredweights, but a hundredweight is 100 pounds (45.36 kg) in the US system (short or net hundredweight) and 112 pounds (50.80 kg)...
- from the traditional British measurement system: A long ton is 20 long hundredweight (cwt), each of which is 8 stone (1 stone = 14 pounds). Thus, a long...
- come to translate both the British hundredweight (8 stone or 112 pounds [50.80 kg]) and the American hundredweight (100 pounds [45.36 kg]), as their cognate...
- the song of that name, in 2001. The E.P. was preceded by the single "Hundredweight". The band signed to Jive Records in the fall of 2001 and released two...
- quarters, hundredweights, and tons remain defined as 25, 100, and 2000 lb respectively. The quarter is now virtually unused, as is the hundredweight outside...
- 41 long tons 6 hundredweight (42.0 t; 46.3 short tons) Tender weight 28 long tons 5 cwt (63,300 lb or 28.7 t) 28 long tons 5 hundredweight (28.7 t; 31.6...
- imperial. In livestock auction markets, cattle are sold in dollars per hundredweight (short), whereas hogs are sold in dollars per hundred kilograms. Imperial...
- underlying bases. Each is equivalent to 20 hundredweight; however, they are long 51 kilograms (112 lb) or short hundredweight 45 kilograms (100 lb), respectively...
- version weigh between 48 and 493⁄4 hundredweight. These guns are very similar to the gun of 91⁄2 feet and 491⁄4 hundredweight which was detailed in the mensuration...