Significados de several hundredweight en inglés

My men collected several hundredweight, as I wished to try an experiment in distilling.

The balls of the Cavendish apparatus, weighing several hundredweight each, are replaced by balls weighing 1¾ pounds only.

In conclusion, I asked them to send at once several hundredweight of different kinds of goods, accompanied by a new troop of vigorous young members.

Several hundredweight of burnt clay must have fallen to the floor there.

"There's probably several hundredweight of eelweed lying around here.