HUNDREDWEIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hundredweight mean? 

• HUNDREDWEIGHT (noun)
  The noun HUNDREDWEIGHT has 3 senses:

1. a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms

2. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

3. a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds

  Familiarity information: HUNDREDWEIGHT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNDREDWEIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

centner; doppelzentner; hundredweight; metric hundredweight

Hypernyms ("hundredweight" is a kind of...):

metric weight unit; weight unit (a decimal unit of weight based on the gram)

Meronyms (parts of "hundredweight"):

centner (in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms)

Holonyms ("hundredweight" is a part of...):

quintal (a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cental; centner; cwt; hundredweight; quintal; short hundredweight

Hypernyms ("hundredweight" is a kind of...):

avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)

Meronyms (parts of "hundredweight"):

quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (25 pounds))

Holonyms ("hundredweight" is a part of...):

net ton; short ton; ton (a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

cwt; hundredweight; long hundredweight

Hypernyms ("hundredweight" is a kind of...):

avoirdupois unit (any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights)

Meronyms (parts of "hundredweight"):

quarter (a quarter of a hundredweight (28 pounds))

Holonyms ("hundredweight" is a part of...):

gross ton; long ton; ton (a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds)

 Context examples 

Three hundredweight more than half a ton he weighed; he had lived a long, strong life, full of fight and struggle, and at the end he faced death at the teeth of a creature whose head did not reach beyond his great knuckled knees.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)