hundredweight
hundredweight is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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, beingthe legal ton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- analytical
- arroba
- avoirdupois
- baby
- balance
- ballast
- beam
- burden
- burdensome
- burthen
- carat
- centigram
- counterpoise
- cumber
- cumbersome
- cumbrous
- drachma
- grain
- gram
- gravitate
- gravitation
- gravity
- heaviness
- heavy
- incumbent
- kilogram
- lead
- load
- long
- lump
- lumpish
- lumpy
- mass
- massive
- metric
- milligram
- millstone
- mountain
- ounce
- pennyweight
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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