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Meanings of short hundredweights in inglés

Unit of mass used in the US and Canada; 100 pounds, or 45.359237 kg.

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        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...
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        Ten meters down the cental corridor, Sol found the blanket Brawne had been wrapped in.
        The Hyperion Cantos
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        The airship does not float safely in the cental blue, aside from attacks by flying foes.
        A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the...
        3
        Wanting a two-eighths more the cental.
        Winston of the Prairie
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        In contrast, Hadoop moves the analytic computation to where the data resides, eliminating the need for a cental, giant number-crunching machine.
        Reuters
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        Seventy-two hours after challenge with L. monocytogenes, the livers of fed mice had multiple microabscesses with cental necrosis and a poor mononuclear response.
        Pubmed