Unit of mass, equal to 8 stone, 112 pounds, or 50.802345 kg.
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Examples for "cwt"
Examples for "cwt"
1I noticed in your Fair Isle order-book an entry of 2 cwt.
2If this supplies as much ammonia to the soil as 3 cwt.
3Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt.
4His proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt.
5The operation is inexpensive, as a very small quantity suffices, one cwt.
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.