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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms [syn: hundredweight, metric hundredweight, doppelzentner, centner]
2: a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal]
3: a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds [syn: hundredweight, cwt, long hundredweight]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural hundredweight or hundredweights) Date: 1577 1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds — called also short hundredweight — see weight table 2. British a unit of weight equal to 112 pounds — called also long hundredweight

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. same or -weights) 1 (in full long hundredweight) Brit. a unit of weight equal to 112 lb. avoirdupois (about 50.8 kg). 2 (in full metric hundredweight) a unit of weight equal to 50 kg. 3 (in full short hundredweight) US a unit of weight equal to 100 lb. (about 45.4 kg).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cental Cen"tal, n. [L. centum a hundred.] A weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois; -- called in many parts of the United States a Hundredweight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Hundredweight Hun"dred*weight`, n. A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or 120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton, being the legal ton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(hundredweights) Note: The plural form is 'hundredweight' after a number. A hundredweight is a unit of weight that is equal to 112 pounds in Britain and to 100 pounds in the United States. ...a hundredweight of coal. N-COUNT: oft N of n