Hundredweight Definition

Hundredweight Sentence Examples

• 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.