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Meanings of long hundredweight in English

Unit of mass, equal to 8 stone, 112 pounds, or 50.802345 kg.

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Examples for "cwt"
1
I noticed in your Fair Isle order-book an entry of 2 cwt.
Second Shetland Truck System Report
2
If this supplies as much ammonia to the soil as 3 cwt.
Farm drainage / The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draini...
3
Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882
4
His proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
5
The operation is inexpensive, as a very small quantity suffices, one cwt.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom / Considered in...
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.
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