How To Use Hundredweight In A Sentence
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With approximately 10 larks to the pound, three hundredweight would account for about 3360 birds being killed each day.
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The letter described a celebration in a parish district where a calf of 3 metric hundredweight was roasted.
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Frank is pictured with a hundredweight of butter - or 224 packs - and that represents the weight he has shed in 12 months.
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I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
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It weighs about a hundredweight and it took two of us to get it back into place after it had been repaired.
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I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
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Allowance must even be made for the fact that the journey alone will knock a hundredweight off a horse.
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I still talk about acres, yards, feet and inches; not forgetting gallons and pints and also hundredweights pounds and ounces.
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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.
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We ordered a hundredweight of coal.
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Ours weighed half a hundredweight with all the food and camping kit we had to carry with us.
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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.
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The castings produced by them can vary in weight from ounces up to several hundredweights.
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For example, a dairy cooperative could have its financial data compared on a hundredweight basis.
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An Indian authority cited four and a half quintal (four hundredweight) of wood for an open-air cremation.
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This massive stone is approximately six feet in length and weight at least five hundredweight.
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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.
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d The price listed for cordage in Placentia was per pound, not hundredweight — 1s. 4d.
The Slender Thread: Irish Women on the Aouthern Avalon, 1750-1860
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And for the frieze and architrave, which is 4 br. and 6 in. long, 2 br. wide and 6 in. thick, 29 hundredweight., duc.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete
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He said the going rate for milk before the premium is about $15.21 a hundredweight.
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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.
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A lady district visitor who called occasionally sometimes gave Mary an order for a hundredweight of coal or a shillingsworth of groceries, or
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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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.
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There's been years when the price differential is $8 or $10 a hundredweight.
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Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt").
Purchasing - Top Stories
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"I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
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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.
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I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
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Having not eaten bacon or burgers for years I now consume vegeburgers by the hundredweight.
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'Yo' niver seed more vittle brought together i 'Newcassel, I'll be bound; there'll be above half a hundredweight o' butcher's meat, beside pies and custards.
Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
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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.
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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.
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But the quintal, or hundredweight, of this old ironware is there valued but at the price of a cantle of bread, and yet they have but a very bad despatch and riddance in the sale of it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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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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Her dad may have owned the business, she says, but he still carried hundredweights of coal on his back.
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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.
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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.
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Both methods employ the use of permanent moulds, usually similar to those used for die-casting but of different metal, and castings can be produced weighing from a few ounces up to hundredweights by this method.
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Even so, there are still possible confusions to the unwary as one can have long hundredweight, short hundredweight, metric hundredweight, and short tons.
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The castings produced by them can vary in weight from ounces up to several hundredweights.
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It's a gargantuan iron construction that weighs several hundredweight, and incorporates all sorts of spikes and crenellations.
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The beekeeper added: ‘We know that 500,000 bees weigh about one hundredweight.’
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He used to give a hundredweight of coal to the poor people in the area.
Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There