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Meanings of metric hundredweight in English

Catalan
quintar

A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms.

quintar
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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
Translations for metric hundredweight
Catalan
quintar