hundredweight
long hundredweight , auch: cwt

It was not large, probably weighed less than a hundredweight.

He pointed to a wallet at his side which must hold a hundredweight or more.

Not a hundredweight of produce can be shipped to England.

My fishing boat could probably only ship one hundredweight at a time.

Every pound lost, would have been a hundredweight of happiness gained.

The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight.

Silver measured by the hundredweight, a year's income for Spain.

They mass, all together, seventeen point six three hundredweight.

He's so underfed, his weight is three hundredweight below normal.

A hundredweight of the stuff could cost thousands of pounds.

Her eyes were cold, and her voice held a hundredweight of irony.

The answer was almost equally discouraging: a small hundredweight, with a shove.

The largest that I ever killed, weighed four hundredweight.

Vermont has just passed a law raising the price of milk 50 cents a hundredweight.

"I thought it would peak at no more than $14 a hundredweight, and it's way past that now."

In this position it was impossible to slip the straps, and the hundredweight on his back would not let him rise.

I should imagine weighed somewhere about five six hundredweight.

For every ton of feeding stuff then there maybe a hundredweight now coming ashore.

I reckoned that the haul had brought in more than nine hundredweight of fish.

"At least she's alive-now try somebody a few hundredweight lighter."

The hotel must burn coal by the hundredweight, she thought, the rooms were kept so warm.

The couch was about six cubits long and must have weighed at least four hundredweight.

Last year, exports totaled less than 59 million hundredweight.

It costs farmers at least $18 per hundredweight to produce milk.

Digging up danger.half a hundredweight of bullets in a rose bed.

The two are distinguished by the terms long hundredweight and short hundredweight:

The long hundredweight is defined as 112 lb (8 stone), which is equal to 50.802345 kg.

A bell's weight is usually measured in the traditional units of the long Hundredweight (cwt), quarters and pounds.

The imperial system uses a stone of 14 lb., a long hundredweight of 112 lb.

The short hundredweight is also called a cental, especially in places which normally use the long hundredweight.

The largest bell weighs 9 long hundredweight, 1 quarter and 25 pounds (481 kg) and sounds the note G sharp.

The weight of the new cable was 35.75 long hundredweight (4000 lb) per nautical mile (980 kg/km), or nearly twice the weight of the old.

The British hundredweight is also called the long hundredweight and the Britsh ton is also called the long ton.