Unit of mass, with differing values.
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Examples for "cwt "
Examples for "cwt "
1 I noticed in your Fair Isle order-book an entry of 2 cwt .
2 If this supplies as much ammonia to the soil as 3 cwt .
3 Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt .
4 His proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt .
5 The operation is inexpensive, as a very small quantity suffices, one cwt .
1 Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.
2 From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead.
3 Sometimes they are ten hundredweight , and hold one hundred and five bushels.
4 Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach?
5 The price of sugar in 1803 was fifty-two shillings a hundredweight .
1 Sheepskins eight dollars the hundred, bullock-skins three dollars per quintal , and goat-skins the same.
2 The Spanish quintal nearly equals 100 English pounds.
3 He pulled down a quintal bag of coffee.
4 I'd give a quintal fer the chance.
5 Samuels only allowed we four dollars a quintal , and his flour was eight, and molasses seventy cents.
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