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Definition of Hundredweights
1. hundredweight [n] - See also: hundredweight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hundredweights
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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