A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds.
1 I noticed in your Fair Isle order-book an entry of 2 cwt .
2 If this supplies as much ammonia to the soil as 3 cwt .
3 Forty shovelfuls of clinkers and twelve of slaked lime make 7 cwt .
4 His proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt .
5 The operation is inexpensive, as a very small quantity suffices, one cwt .
6 In the same order-book there is an entry of 4 cwt .
7 In the tower there is a large bell, weighing 31 cwt .
8 The chlorates are usually sold in wooden kegs containing 1 cwt .
9 Each cell of the carbonizer can reduce to charcoal 50 cwt .
10 A large quantity of dust escapes from the cells-about7 cwt .
11 The revenue tax recently imposed by Great Britain of three pence per cwt .
12 On the next day I received information that about 10 cwt .
13 Not however to be entirely dependent on the sheep, I purchased four cwt .
14 On either side there are six main suspensions of 25 cwt .
15 This operation takes about twenty minutes, and at one operation about 1½ cwt .
16 We purchased a strong one-horse dray which we loaded with about 10 cwt .
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