hundredweight
- noun
- /ˈhʌndrədˌweɪt/
- UK
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centenar
- A standard bag of flour usually weighs about one hundredweight, making it easy to calculate the total weight for shipping.
Examples
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Not that wading through the water would have made me much wetter, and admittedly, it would have cleared my lower extremities of half a hundredweight of mud, but the bridge, as a solid reminder of civilization in the form of county councils, I found encouraging.
Fiction book (1999) -
My father left us a hundredweight.
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You know, about two hundredweight.
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The delivery truck had a capacity of ten hundredweight, which allowed it to transport heavy goods efficiently.
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Farmers often sell their produce by the hundredweight to ensure accurate measurements for pricing.
Synonyms
A unit equal to 100 kilograms
Compounds
- Specialized
An American measure of weight equal to 100 pounds, about 45 kilograms
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Morphology
Etymology
Hundredweight is simply the parts hundred and weight, literally a 'hundred' of weight. In the metric system it was fixed to mean 100 kilograms, so the name tells you it is a 'hundred' kilos.