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# hundredweight

noun (hundredweights, or hundredweight after a number); unit of weight

«hundredweight» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the tales a hundredweight is a heavy load that a strong man cannot carry, so it shows how much weight is too much

### Examples

- A sack of coal can weigh a hundredweight. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/#x1)
- He could not lift a hundredweight of stone. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/#x2)
- The cart carried three hundredweight of apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/#x3)

### Note

a unit of weight, not a count; in a weight sum, 1 hundredweight is 112 pounds in Britain but 100 pounds in America, so check which one the problem uses

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «hundredweight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«hundredweight» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/hundredweight.html) on Mova free.