The hundredweight (abbreviation: cwt), formerly also known as the centum weight or quintal, is a British imperial and United States customary unit of...
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ton are defined as 20 hundredweights, but a hundredweight is 100 pounds (45.36 kg) in the US system (short or net hundredweight) and 112 pounds (50.80 kg)...
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come to translate both the British hundredweight (8 stone or 112 pounds [50.80 kg]) and the American hundredweight (100 pounds [45.36 kg]), as their cognate...
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of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb) the weight of 35 cubic feet (0.991 m3)...
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Easyworld (redirect from Hundredweight (song))
the song of that name, in 2001. The E.P. was preceded by the single "Hundredweight". The band signed to Jive Records in the fall of 2001 and released two...
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version weigh between 48 and 493⁄4 hundredweight. These guns are very similar to the gun of 91⁄2 feet and 491⁄4 hundredweight which was detailed in the mensuration...
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quarters, hundredweights, and tons remain defined as 25, 100, and 2000 lb respectively. The quarter is now virtually unused, as is the hundredweight outside...
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of centimeters in a meter. The number of pounds in an American short hundredweight. In Greece, India, Israel and Nepal, 100 is the police telephone number...
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41 long tons 6 hundredweight (42.0 t; 46.3 short tons) Tender weight 28 long tons 5 cwt (63,300 lb or 28.7 t) 28 long tons 5 hundredweight (28.7 t; 31.6...
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imperial. In livestock auction markets, cattle are sold in dollars per hundredweight (short), whereas hogs are sold in dollars per hundred kilograms. Imperial...
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the weight of the barrel and breech together which weighed 26 long hundredweight (1.3 t). It was developed to replace the obsolescent 6 inch 25 cwt and...
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cwt in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. cwt is the abbreviation for hundredweight (cwt = centum weight), an English, imperial, and US customary unit of...
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solidi. A hundred litrai were known as a kentēnarion (κεντηνάριον, "hundredweight"). Its weight seems to have decreased gradually from the original 324 g...
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underlying bases. Each is equivalent to 20 hundredweight; however, they are long 51 kilograms (112 lb) or short hundredweight 45 kilograms (100 lb), respectively...
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pint, or none at all. Flour and sugar are sold by the kilogram, or the hundredweight, or the metric tonne, but the customer specifies the weight of the item...
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(F15), a mid-size luxury crossover SUV F15 and F15A, the two Ford 15-hundredweight versions of the World War II Canadian Military Pattern trucks February...
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the Imperial units for length, weight and time even though the tons, hundredweights, gallons, and nautical miles, for example, are different for the U.S...
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imperial system has a hundredweight, defined as eight stone of 14 lb each, or 112 lb (50.80234544 kg), whereas a US hundredweight is 100 lb (45.359237 kg)...
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yard, equal to 9 inches qr. av., Quarter (unit) § Weight, 1⁄4 of a hundredweight, equal to 2 stone or 28 pounds avoirdupois QR decomposition, a decomposition...
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vitae modifier. The true plural is curricula vitae. cwt. centum weight "hundredweight" This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. DG Dei gratia...
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system employed the stone of 14 pounds, the hundredweight of 8 stone and the ton of 2240 pounds (20 hundredweight), while the customary system of units did...
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hundredweight (3 t) guns Two x 68 pounder (31 kg)/88 hundredweight (4.5 t) pivots (fore and aft) Quarter deck: Four x 8 in (203 mm)/52 hundredweight (2...
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known in the country simply as the ton – are commonly used, though the hundredweight is still used in agriculture and shipping. The grain is used to describe...
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will determine the lifestyle of everyone born into it "until the last hundredweight of fossil fuel is burned" (bis der letzte Zentner fossilen Brennstoffs...
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anvils were often marked in hundredweight, the marking consisting of three numbers, indicating hundredweight, quarter hundredweight and pounds. For example...
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Producers. By December 2010, milk prices had increased to about $13 per hundredweight from a low of below $10 in 2009. However, the price of corn used for...
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stone Approx. equivalent in kg 1 1 pound 1⁄14 0.4536 14 1 stone 1 6.350 28 1 quarter 2 12.70 112 1 hundredweight 8 50.80 2,240 1 (long) ton 160 1,016...
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$1.95/bushel Upland cotton $0.52/pound Wheat $2.94/bushel Rice $6.50/hundredweight Peanuts $355.00/ton Soybeans $5.00/bushel Grain Sorghum $1.95/bushel...
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stone of 14 lb, a long hundredweight of 112 lb and a long ton of 2240 lb. The stone is not used in the US and the hundredweights and tons are short: 100 lb...
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of about 150 imperial bushels (5,500 L) of green hops. It weighed a hundredweight and a quarter (140 pounds (64 kg)) and was marked with the grower's...
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