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Webster 1913 Edition
Hundredweight
Hun′dred-weightˊ
,Noun.
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.
Definition 2024
hundredweight
hundredweight
English
Alternative forms
- (abbreviation): cwt.
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)