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Definition of Hundredweight

1. Noun. A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.

2. Noun. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.

3. Noun. A British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds.

Definition of Hundredweight

1. n. 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 of Hundredweight

1. Noun. A measure of weight containing 100 pounds (45.5 kg) in the U.S. or 112 pounds (51 kg) in the United Kingdom. ¹

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Definition of Hundredweight

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hundredweight

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Literary usage of Hundredweight

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

1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1903)
"The countervailing duty averaged Is. 6d. per hundredweight, yielding £270000 of revenue to the Government. Before the sugar conference at Brussels had ..."

2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"Suppose,' he says,* ' that when a hundredweight of fish was sold by auction for 18s., there was no more fish of the same description in the market, ..."

3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"In the first five months of 1914 the United Kingdom reexports of coffee to the same countries amounted to 80407 hundredweight, and the exports from the ..."

4. A Statistical Account of Assam by William Wilson Hunter (1879)
"8d. a hundredweight; and in 1870 it was still Rs. 5 a maund, or 13s. 8d. a hundredweight. The best cleaned rice grown in the District sold at Rs. 2 a maund ..."

5. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"said to have been 29500 hundredweight. The catch in some of the later years may be given: — In 1814 44650 hundredweight 1821 49652 hundredweight 1823 40399 ..."

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