A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.
Unit of mass in Germany equal to 100 kg.
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Examples for "hundredweight"
Examples for "hundredweight"
1Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.
2From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead.
3Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels.
4Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach?
5The price of sugar in 1803 was fifty-two shillings a hundredweight.
1Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 centner, or more than forty thousand tons.
2(15 centner), and it has the form as is here drawn; it stood behind on the fish's head.
3We had for every one of our corps twelve shot apiece, and in the rear a sufficiency of centners of powder, with ball and match.
4There are now, in Borislau, 25 melting works, which, in 1877, with 1 steam and 60 fire kettles, produced 95,000 metric centners (9,500,000 lb.
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