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What (who) is hundredweight - definition
UNIT OF MASS, WITH DIFFERING VALUES
Hundred weight; Long hundredweight; Long Hundredweight; Short Hundredweight; Short hundredweight; Sh cwt; Cwt.; Centum weight; Cental; Short hundredweights; Imperial hundredweight
![A weight restriction sign on [[Alderney]] using hundredweight](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Road signs on Alderney.png?width=200 "A weight restriction sign on [[Alderney]] using hundredweight")
Hundredweight
·noun 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.
hundredweight
(hundredweights)
Note: The plural form is 'hundredweight' after a number.
A hundredweight is a unit of weight that is equal to 112 pounds in Britain and to 100 pounds in the United States.
...a hundredweight of coal.
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hundredweight
(abbrev.: cwt.)
¦ noun (plural same or hundredweights)
1. (also long hundredweight) Brit. a unit of weight equal to 112 lb avoirdupois (about 50.8 kg).
2. (also short hundredweight) US a unit of weight equal to 100 lb (about 45.4 kg).
3. (also metric hundredweight) a unit of weight equal to 50 kg.
Wikipedia
Hundredweight
The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass. Its value differs between the US and British imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the "short" and "long" hundredweight and in British English as the "cental" and the "imperial hundredweight".
- The short hundredweight or cental of 100 pounds (45.36 kg) is used in the United States.
- The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the imperial system.
Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds.
Examples of use of hundredweight
1. Can you tell me of anyone who eats two hundredweight of pears?
2. "In total the laden casket was about 10–11 hundredweight, or over half a tonne.
3. He adds that it would be perfectly, perfectly safe, if we put a few hundredweight of rocks inside the van.
4. Another proposal would create a similar fund, but would pay out subsidies to farmers when the price of milk falls below $14 per hundredweight.
5. Then the stone – which weighs four hundredweight and measures roughly 26 inches by 16 inches by 11 inches – had to be carried round to the Poet‘s Corner door where, presumably, it was loaded into a car.