Definitionn. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms
Last update: August 25, 2015
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If it does not weigh a hundredweight and won't break my neck... [Please select]
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"They are leathern bags, and weigh about a hundredweight each." [Please select]
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"White spar," said Arden, authoritatively, "and containeth of gold ten pounds to the hundredweight." [Please select]
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"We'll wager coined gold by the ton--a hundred pounds to the hundredweight."' [Please select]
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So they paid a hundredweight of gold to the peasant, who was not scolded, but kissed. [Please select]
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"They are pretty heavy," the mate said, "I should say a hundredweight each." [Please select]
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They sent for the smith; he forged a club which weighed a hundredweight. [Please select]
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Lad, charging at full speed, crashed into the forward-lurching six-hundredweight of solid flesh and inch-thick hide. [Please select]
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1 Metric quintal = 2 hundredweight, less 3-1/2 pounds, or 220 pounds, 7 ounces. [Please select]
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Enormous hammers or pounders they are, with shanks as well as heads of malleable-iron, each weighing, shank and head together, seven hundredweight. [Please select]
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He first suggested in the year 1792 that an ordinary boat might be made self-righting by placing two watertight casks in the head and sternsheets of it, and fastening three hundredweight of iron to the keel. [Please select]
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