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hundred·weight (hundrəd wāt′)

noun

  1. a unit of weight, equal to 100 pounds avoirdupois (45.3592 kilograms): the British hundredweight equals 112 pounds avoirdupois or 50.8023 kilograms
  2. a unit of weight, equal to 100 pounds troy (37.3242 kilograms) Symbol, cwt
hundredweight Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • coal: An antiquated grate that would hold about a hundredweight of coal, had been stuck on to the hearth by Mr. Thorne's father.
  • sand: You can load up a couple of hundredweight of sharp sand and a few paving slabs to lay a patio.
  • iron: I don't suppose he'll be so cheerful once he's moved four hundredweight of cast iron and driven back to St. Malo.

Converse of object

  • weigh: The heaviest bell, the ' tenor ' , weighs 27 hundredweight, 2 quarters and 5 pounds and sounds a C sharp note.
  • hold: The mixed ore is conveyed to the works in wooden measures which ' hold a hundredweight each.
  • move: I don't suppose he'll be so cheerful once he's moved four hundredweight of cast iron and driven back to St. Malo.
  • call: It can also be called the long hundredweight to distinguish it from what the Americans call the short hundredweight, which is 100 lbs.

Adjective modifier

  • several: It takes a lot of pulling to raise several hundredweight by this amount.

Modifies a noun

  • sack: Arrival of Grain Cleaning through screens The incoming grain arrives by lorry or wagons in large two hundredweight sacks from the local farms.

Noun used with modifier

  • half: The engines did the whole journey on approximately seven and a half hundredweight of coal at a cost of 1s 9d per hw.

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