hundredweight
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8.4
A weight of 112 pounds used in Britain
- noun
- /ˈhʌndrədˌweɪt/
- UK
:
centenar largo
- Each truck can carry up to ten hundredweight of goods without exceeding the weight limit.
Examples
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THREE HUNDREDWEIGHT WE BROUGHT UP TODAY, AND WE WORKED A DOUBLE SHIFT.
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The farmer sold a load of apples that weighed over five hundredweight at the market.
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In Britain, a hundredweight is commonly used to measure large quantities of grain.
Synonyms
9.9
A British unit of weight equal to 112 pounds about 51 kilograms
is the full written name rather than the abbreviation
9.9
A British unit of weight equal to 112 pounds or about 51 kilograms
is the general unit name without the non-metric usage note
Compounds
short hundredweight
- Specialized
9.1
An American measure of weight equal to 100 pounds, about 45 kilograms
How Heavy
Surface Forms
hundredweight singular
hundredweights plural
Morphology
Etymology
Hundredweight is made of hundred and weight, which means a 'hundred' group of weight. In Britain an old counting made that 'hundred' equal to 112 pounds, so the word still means a fixed group of pounds even though the number is not exactly 100.