1. Plural of hundredweight; units of weight equal to 100 pounds (in the U.S.) or 112 pounds (in Britain).
Usage: Common in commerce and agriculture; British hundredweight (cwt) = 112 pounds; U.S. hundredweight = 100 pounds; Often abbreviated as cwt

Examples

• The farmer sold five hundredweights of grain at the market.
• The shipment weighed approximately 20 hundredweights.
• In Britain, a hundredweight equals 112 pounds, while in America it is 100 pounds.
• The recipe calls for three hundredweights of flour for the large batch.
• Coal was historically measured and sold in hundredweights.
• The warehouse inventory listed the goods in hundredweights for easier calculation.