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Meanings of hundredweight in English
A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
Catalan
quintar Usage of hundredweight in English
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.
6
The species runs to a hundredweight, I believe, in the Mississippi.
7
The heavily guarded express continued to drag out yellow gold by the hundredweight.
8
Observe in alloying how many hours are wanted for each hundredweight.
9
This accounts, no doubt, for the stuff in our last half-hundredweight.
10
The common waggon used weighs eight hundredweight, and holds fifty bushels.
11
I had a good supply, four hundredweight of the most useful sizes, No.
12
We have over 3 hundredweight still, which will be quite sufficient.
13
I don't believe there was five hundredweight of guano in it.
14
This party, by their combined operations, weigh and pack a hundredweight per hour.
15
And to right a capsized sledge, weighing about eight hundredweight, is no fun.
16
It was corrugated iron, they told me, of, I forget, how many hundredweight.
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