Lexic.us

Definition of Long hundredweight

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Long Hundredweight

Literary usage of Long hundredweight

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

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"I think the only article which is still sold by the long hundredweight is cheese; and in weighing cheese a rather curious and ingenious method was adopted ..."

2. A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester by Robert Holland (1886)
"I think the only article which is still sold by the long hundredweight is cheese; and in weighing cheese a rather curious and ingenious method was adopted ..."

3. Business Arithmetic by Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes (1918)
"20 long hundredweight = 1 long ton (LT) Table of Troy Weight 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.) 20 pennyweight = 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces = 1 pound (Ib.) ..."

4. Hamilton's Standard Arithmetic: Book One-three by Samuel Hamilton (1917)
"... Ib. and a car of soft coal weighing 79800 Ib. Express the former in long tons and long hundredweight and the latter in short tons and hundredweight. ..."

5. The Public School Arithmetic, Based on McLellan and Dewey's "Psychology of by James Alexander McLellan, Albert Flintoft Ames (1897)
"20 hundredweight = 1 ton (T.) In the United States Custom House, and in weighing iron and coal at the mines, the long hundredweight and the long ton are ..."

6. Brief Business Arithmetic by Clarence Wesley Sutton, Nels Johann Lennes (1918)
"20 long hundredweight = 1 long ton (LT) Table of Troy Weight 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.) 20 pennyweight = 1 ounce (oz. ..."

7. The Public School Arithmetic: Based on McLellan & Dewey's "Psychology of by James Alexander McLellan, Albert Flintoft Ames (1897)
"20 hundredweight = 1 ton (T.) In the United States Custom House, and in weighing iron and coal at the mines, the long hundredweight and the long ton are ..."

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