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quintar

A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.

        quintar
        Russian
        децитонна

        Unit of mass in Germany equal to 100 kg.

              децитонна
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              Examples for "hundredweight"
              Examples for "hundredweight"
              1
              Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.
              The hangman's daughter
              2
              From three to four hundredweight of salt was used for each hogshead.
              Michael Penguyne; Or, Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast
              3
              Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels.
              Lands of the Slave and the Free; Or, Cuba, the United States, an...
              4
              Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach?
              Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29
              5
              The price of sugar in 1803 was fifty-two shillings a hundredweight.
              Here, There and Everywhere
              1
              Waltershausen estimates the annual consumption of that mineral for this single purpose at 850,000 centner, or more than forty thousand tons.
              The Earth as Modified by Human Action
              2
              (15 centner), and it has the form as is here drawn; it stood behind on the fish's head.
              Records of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
              3
              We had for every one of our corps twelve shot apiece, and in the rear a sufficiency of centners of powder, with ball and match.
              John Splendid: The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars...
              4
              There 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.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883