[
UK
/hˈʌndɹɪdwˌeɪt/
]
[ US /ˈhəndɹədˌweɪt/ ]
[ US /ˈhəndɹədˌweɪt/ ]
NOUN
- a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
- a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
- a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
How To Use hundredweight In A Sentence
- With approximately 10 larks to the pound, three hundredweight would account for about 3360 birds being killed each day.
- The letter described a celebration in a parish district where a calf of 3 metric hundredweight was roasted.
- Frank is pictured with a hundredweight of butter - or 224 packs - and that represents the weight he has shed in 12 months.
- I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
- It weighs about a hundredweight and it took two of us to get it back into place after it had been repaired.
- I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
- Allowance must even be made for the fact that the journey alone will knock a hundredweight off a horse.
- I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
- 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.
- We ordered a hundredweight of coal.