Definition of Hundredweights

1. Noun. (plural of hundredweight) ¹

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Definition of Hundredweights

1. hundredweight [n] - See also: hundredweight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hundredweights

hundred-year storm
hundred-year storms
hundred and one
hundred dollar bill
hundred thousand
hundredaire
hundredal
hundredfold
hundredfolds
hundreds
hundreds and thousands
hundredth
hundredthly
hundredths
hundredweight
hundredweights (current term)
hundy
hung about
hung around
hung beef
hung by a thread
hung juries
hung jury
hung out
hung out to dry
hung over
hung parliament

Literary usage of Hundredweights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Statistical Account of Assam by William Wilson Hunter (1879)
"Total imports : rice, 3797 tons, value ^45562, I0S. od.; tobacco, 86| tons, value ^2437, I0S. od.; gum, 3 hundredweights, ..."

2. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1876)
"From such a holding, in the case of good land, a fair out-turn would be 3 putis or 36 maunds (equal to 26 hundredweights) of ..."

3. Land: Its Attractions and Riches by Charles Finch Dowsett (1892)
"We thus imported last year (estimating the weight of the articles where it is not stated in the Government returns) about 19000000 hundredweights, or nearly ..."

4. A Complete System of Conveyancing: Adapted to the Present Practice of by Juridical Society of Edinburgh (1907)
"... on blackband ironstone calcined a lordship or royalty of per ton of twenty-two and one-half hundredweights for each day that the price of pig-iron ..."

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