Definition of "hundredweight" []

• A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System equal to 100 pounds (45.36 kilograms). Also called cental, short hundredweight. (noun)
• A unit of weight in the British Imperial System equal to 112 pounds (50.80 kilograms). Also called quintal. (noun)

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• "'Your honour has a cart or beast of burden with you, doubtless?' said the chandler, 'for two hundredweight is a heavy load.'"
• "They don't know yet that it amounts to five or six hundredweight, which is coined into ready money underneath the ground."
• "The current price is $15 to $16 a hundredweight, which is 100 pounds of milk."