We have no meanings for "several hundredweight" in our records yet.
1 My men collected several hundredweight , as I wished to try an experiment in distilling.
2 The balls of the Cavendish apparatus, weighing several hundredweight each, are replaced by balls weighing 1¾ pounds only.
3 In conclusion, I asked them to send at once several hundredweight of different kinds of goods, accompanied by a new troop of vigorous young members.
4 Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.
5 "There's probably several hundredweight of eelweed lying around here.
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