Hundredweight synonyms

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cwt
Hundredweight, a unit of mass.
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long hundredweight
The British hundredweight
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short hundredweight
a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
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centner
A unit of weight in parts of the former Soviet Union equal to 100 kilograms (220.46 pounds).
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cental
A weight of one hundred avoirdupois pounds; hundredweight.
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quintal
A unit of weight in the metric system, equal to 100 kilograms (220.4623 pounds avoirdupois)
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metric hundredweight
A unit of weight equal to 50 kilograms
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doppelzentner
a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
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hundred-weight (related)
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cwts (related)
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kilo- (related)
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bushel (related)
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chaldron (related)
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ton (related)
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  • The paper is fed from reels placed at the two ends in decks, one above the other, each reel containing about five miles of paper, and weighing about fourteen hundredweight.

  • The heaviest bell, the ' tenor ', weighs 27 hundredweight, 2 quarters and 5 pounds and sounds a C sharp note.

  • The mixed ore is conveyed to the works in wooden measures which ' hold a hundredweight each.

  • I don't suppose he'll be so cheerful once he's moved four hundredweight of cast iron and driven back to St. Malo.

  • It can also be called the long hundredweight to distinguish it from what the Americans call the short hundredweight, which is 100 lbs.

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