hundredweight

One hundred pounds

A hundredweight is a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds in the United States or 112 pounds in Britain.

The British version, also called a long hundredweight, derives from older trade measurements.

Abbreviated cwt.

The farmer sold potatoes by the hundredweight.

units

avoirdupois

Common weight measurement system

long · gross · tare · net · kilogram · tonne · stone · pound · ounce · gram

agriculture

grain

Cereal plant's harvest unit

  • harvestGathering mature crops
  • balesTied agricultural packages
  • hayDried feed crop

straw · feed · produce · livestock · wool · cotton · fertilizer · seedlings · bushel · sacks

shipping

freight

Goods being transported

shipment · logistics · transport · container · pallet · manifest · waybill · tonnage · lading · dispatch

trade

commodities

Tradeable raw materials

broker · futures · market · merchandise · auction · tariff · import · export · transaction · speculation

industry

mill

Grain-crushing facility

  • forgeFurnace for shaping metal
  • foundryMetal casting facility
  • factoryIndustrial production facility

manufacturing · production · ironworks · steelworks · coal · ore · pig iron · smelting · raw materials · processing

Categories
Opposites
scale of weight

hundredweightounce

One-sixteenth of a pound

gram · grain · milligram · microgram · ton

measurement system

hundredweightmetric ton

Thousand-kilogram mass unit

tonne · kilogram · gram · hectogram · decagram

Family

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