Definition of Long hundred

1. Noun. The cardinal number that is the product of ten and twelve.

Exact synonyms: 120, Great Hundred
Generic synonyms: Large Integer

Definition of Long hundred

1. Noun. (historical) One hundred and twenty (120), 12 x 10. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Hundred

long flexor muscle of toes
long fly
long for
long green
long gross
long gun
long gyrus of insula
long hair
long haul
long hauls
long head
long head of triceps
long hop
long hops
long horse
long hundred (current term)
long hundreds
long hundredweight
long in the tooth
long incubation hepatitis
long interspersed elements
long iron
long johns
long jump
long jumper
long jumpers
long legs
long lens
long levatores costarum muscles
long live

Literary usage of Long hundred

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

1. The Exchequer Reports: Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, John Innes Clark Hare, Horace Binney Wallace (1855)
"I think that the long hundred is not a local weight. It is as much a known weight, and known in every part of the kingdom where the English language is ..."

2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"But the long hundred is now seldom heard of except in piecework in some few trades. Long-settle, »6. a long high-backed wooden seat, common in the ..."

3. Archaeological Review by Gomme, George Laurence, Sir, 1853-1916 (1890)
"Soc., v, 102, has already suggested that the long hundred is here meant. ... 6 Although the long hundred is now unknown in Germany, it was known to Adelung ..."

4. The Discovery of America by the Northmen in the Tenth Century: Comprising by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1842)
"The Roman numeral C, may signify either 100 or 120; that is, either the short hundred of five score, or the long hundred of six score. ..."

5. Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs by Arthur Benoni Evans (1881)
"But the long hundred is now seldom heard of except in piecework in some few trades. Long-settle, sb. a long high-backed wooden seat, common in the ..."

6. The Northmen in New England: Or, America in the Tenth Century by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1839)
"The Roman numeral C, may signify either 100 or 120; that is, either the short hundred of five score, or the long hundred of six score. ..."

7. A Glossary of Dialect & Archaic Words Used in the County of Gloucester by John Drummond Robertson (1890)
"But the long hundred is now seldom heard of except in piecework in some few trades. Long-settle, sb. a long high-backed wooden ..."

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