Definitions | hundredweight |
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- A measure of weight containing 100 pounds in the U.S. or 112 pounds in the United Kingdom.
- Quotations
- 1882: The hundredweight of 112 avoirdupois lbs. becomes general in the period before me, and is employed for the commoner kinds of materials. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209.
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