Definition of "hundredweights" [hundredweights]

• Plural form of hundredweight. (noun)

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• "No more in her spiritual life than in carrying the hundredweights of grain was there a possibility of a misstep or an overbalancing."
• "Then suddenly the guards began to loose random volleys at the roof and brought down hundredweights of splintered stalactite."
• "He regulated, indeed, his management of his dependants (who fortunately were but few in number) much upon the principle of the carters whom he observed loading their carts at a neighbouring coal-hill, and who never failed to clap an additional brace of hundredweights on their burden, so soon as by any means they had compassed a new horse of somewhat superior strength to that which had broken down the day before."