1. a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds in the United States
Usage: US measurement
2. a unit of weight equal to 112 pounds in Britain
Usage: British measurement

Examples

• The farmer sold three hundredweight of potatoes at the market.
• Coal was traditionally sold by the hundredweight.
• The shipping manifest listed the cargo as 50 hundredweight of grain.
• In the US, a hundredweight equals 100 pounds exactly.
• British hundredweight measurements differ from American ones.
• The abbreviation cwt stands for hundredweight.
• Wholesale prices are often quoted per hundredweight.