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Definition of hundredweight in English: hundredweight(also cwt) nounPlural hundredweights ˈhʌndrədweɪtˈhəndrədˌweɪt 1British A unit of weight equal to 112 lb avoirdupois (about 50.8 kg). 〈英〉长担（等于112磅，约50.8公斤） Example sentencesExamples - Its crime, as the documentary points out, was that from first song to last, it got through three and a half hundredweight of black paint.
- Having not eaten bacon or burgers for years I now consume vegeburgers by the hundredweight.
- This massive stone is approximately six feet in length and weight at least five hundredweight.
- With approximately 10 larks to the pound, three hundredweight would account for about 3360 birds being killed each day.
- I guess that, since 1954, I have smoked more than a million cigarettes, at least 20,000 cigars, and perhaps a hundredweight of pipe tobacco.
- It weighs about a hundredweight and it took two of us to get it back into place after it had been repaired.
- Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
- The staff are longing to sell the two hundredweight bags of sawdust that make up most of the stock, but the browsers go straight past those to stick their fingers in the reptile cage.
- The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
- Frank is pictured with a hundredweight of butter - or 224 packs - and that represents the weight he has shed in 12 months.
- Allowance must even be made for the fact that the journey alone will knock a hundredweight off a horse.
- I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
- Ours weighed half a hundredweight with all the food and camping kit we had to carry with us.
- He had just unloaded his prize specimens for a quarter of that - and, in the village, had given away half a hundredweight to anyone who would have them.
- This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been considerable.
- "I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
- The beekeeper added: ‘We know that 500,000 bees weigh about one hundredweight.’
- Her dad may have owned the business, she says, but he still carried hundredweights of coal on his back.
2US A unit of weight equal to 100 lb (about 45.4 kg). 〈美〉短担（等于100磅，约45.4公斤） Example sentencesExamples - He said the going rate for milk before the premium is about $15.21 a hundredweight.
- For example, a dairy cooperative could have its financial data compared on a hundredweight basis.
- As a harsh winter lingered, blocking the trade routes to the territory, prices rose steadily and eventually reached a hundred dollars for a hundredweight of flour.
- There's been years when the price differential is $8 or $10 a hundredweight.
- The castings produced by them can vary in weight from ounces up to several hundredweights.
3A unit of weight equal to 50 kg. 半公担（等于50公斤） Example sentencesExamples - Even so, there are still possible confusions to the unwary as one can have long hundredweight, short hundredweight, metric hundredweight, and short tons.
- The letter described a celebration in a parish district where a calf of 3 metric hundredweight was roasted.
- Whether a metric hundredweight of wheat is exchanged for a gramme or a kilogramme of gold does not in the least depend upon conditions inherent in that wheat or gold.
- The St. Peter's bell, 24 tons in weight and with a clapper which alone weighs 16 metric hundredweight, is the largest swinging bell in the world.
Definition of hundredweight in US English: hundredweight(also cwt) nounˈhəndrədˌwātˈhəndrədˌweɪt 1US (in the US) equal to 100 lb avoirdupois (about 45.4 kg). 〈英〉长担（等于112磅，约50.8公斤） Example sentencesExamples - The castings produced by them can vary in weight from ounces up to several hundredweights.
- For example, a dairy cooperative could have its financial data compared on a hundredweight basis.
- As a harsh winter lingered, blocking the trade routes to the territory, prices rose steadily and eventually reached a hundred dollars for a hundredweight of flour.
- He said the going rate for milk before the premium is about $15.21 a hundredweight.
- There's been years when the price differential is $8 or $10 a hundredweight.
2(in the metric system) equal to 50 kg. Example sentencesExamples - The letter described a celebration in a parish district where a calf of 3 metric hundredweight was roasted.
- The St. Peter's bell, 24 tons in weight and with a clapper which alone weighs 16 metric hundredweight, is the largest swinging bell in the world.
- Even so, there are still possible confusions to the unwary as one can have long hundredweight, short hundredweight, metric hundredweight, and short tons.
- Whether a metric hundredweight of wheat is exchanged for a gramme or a kilogramme of gold does not in the least depend upon conditions inherent in that wheat or gold.
3(in the UK) equal to 112 lb avoirdupois (about 50.8 kg). 〈英〉长担（等于112磅，约50.8公斤） Example sentencesExamples - "I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
- I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
- Having not eaten bacon or burgers for years I now consume vegeburgers by the hundredweight.
- This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been considerable.
- Ours weighed half a hundredweight with all the food and camping kit we had to carry with us.
- The staff are longing to sell the two hundredweight bags of sawdust that make up most of the stock, but the browsers go straight past those to stick their fingers in the reptile cage.
- This massive stone is approximately six feet in length and weight at least five hundredweight.
- Allowance must even be made for the fact that the journey alone will knock a hundredweight off a horse.
- Her dad may have owned the business, she says, but he still carried hundredweights of coal on his back.
- Its crime, as the documentary points out, was that from first song to last, it got through three and a half hundredweight of black paint.
- Frank is pictured with a hundredweight of butter - or 224 packs - and that represents the weight he has shed in 12 months.
- Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.
- I guess that, since 1954, I have smoked more than a million cigarettes, at least 20,000 cigars, and perhaps a hundredweight of pipe tobacco.
- He had just unloaded his prize specimens for a quarter of that - and, in the village, had given away half a hundredweight to anyone who would have them.
- The beekeeper added: ‘We know that 500,000 bees weigh about one hundredweight.’
- With approximately 10 larks to the pound, three hundredweight would account for about 3360 birds being killed each day.
- It weighs about a hundredweight and it took two of us to get it back into place after it had been repaired.
- The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
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