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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • cart-load, sometimes of a specified amount such as 2 hundredweight (100 kg) of straw or 3 hundredweight (150 kg) of hay or manure. Cardarelli asserts that...
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    their payload, which was measured in hundredweights, and this usage has been retained in the article. A hundredweight is one twentieth of a long ton or 51kg...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • vitae modifier. The true plural is curricula vitae. cwt. centum weight "hundredweight" This is a mixture of Latin and English abbreviations. D.V. Deo volente...
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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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  • of 120. The unit's use as a measure of weight is now described as a hundredweight, i.e. 112 pounds. The Latin edition of the Assize of Weights and Measures...
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    curious and learned gentleman, shewed me a root hereof that waied half an hundredweight, and of the bignes of a child of a yeare old." It can be used fresh...
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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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  • inches by 20 inches; doubles twice that. A box weighed approximately a hundredweight. What is described here is the process as employed during the 20th century...
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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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