They don't know yet that it amounts to five or six hundredweight, which is coined into ready money underneath the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Poor Plutocrats] Reference
And the department said potato production was forecast at 7.9 million hundredweight, which is 4 percent less than a year ago. From Wordnik.com. [High Plains Journal] Reference
Pieces of shell of several hundredweight lie about. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference
Anything over a hundredweight is too heavy to lift. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
These sacks (collectively) are over a hundredweight.. '. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
It is easy to reduce from pounds to hundredweight and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
The species runs to a hundredweight, I believe, in the Mississippi. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Why increase my burdens by a hundredweight or so of Easthaven beach?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29] Reference
Only one unit suggests convenience in reductions, viz., hundredweight. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
This accounts, no doubt, for the stuff in our last half-hundredweight. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
One ounce might be contained in about four hundredweight of canned food. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884] Reference
The common waggon used weighs eight hundredweight, and holds fifty bushels. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Sometimes they are ten hundredweight, and hold one hundred and five bushels. From Wordnik.com. [Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada] Reference
Dairy farmers were losing money on every hundredweight of milk they produced. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
And to right a capsized sledge, weighing about eight hundredweight, is no fun. From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole~ Depot Journeys] Reference
Heavier loads, approaching sometimes two hundredweight, are borne by grave, silent. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
Then come the carriages of the household, weighing about fifteen hundredweight each. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
He was powerfully developed physically, and at eighteen could lift ten hundredweight. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
"I would rather an ounce of hard proof than a hundredweight of your White Ajah logic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Path of Daggers]
And Ratcliffe said it was gold, about a ton of it, give or take a hundredweight or two. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
Cook, haul in that boat and put half a hundredweight of ship's bread and four buckets of water in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
Such as are kept also for burden will carry four hundredweight commonly without any hurt or hindrance. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference
Two hundredweight, with a Moor on top, is a fair load for a long journey, marching seven hours every day. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
With a few accidental dace and chub thrown in, there would therefore be over a solid hundredweight of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Tests have shown that slop-fed stock loses six to eight pounds more per hundredweight than does the dry-fed. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
The consequence is, that for every hundredweight of fiber about a ton of woody material has to be transported. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883] Reference
Fah., besides which several hundredweight of ice were made in the few days during which the experiments lasted. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881] Reference
Here, then, is a stag's head, some modelling or pipe-clay, some soft-soap, a hundredweight or so of common plaster of. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
In the evening two boats 'crews were sent away fishing, and they caught in two hauls of the seine nearly three hundredweight of fish. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century] Reference
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