cwt

cwt
noun
1. a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit
Part Holonyms: ↑short ton, ↑ton, ↑net ton
Part Meronyms: ↑quarter
2. a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
Hypernyms: ↑avoirdupois unit
Part Holonyms: ↑long ton, ↑ton, ↑gross ton
Part Meronyms: ↑quarter

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abbreviation
Etymology: Latin centum + English weight
hundredweight

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hundredweight; hundredweights.

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abbrev
Hundredweight(s)
ORIGIN: c for L centum a hundred, and wt for weight

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hundredweight
Thesaurus: units for measuring weight, area or volumehyponym to measure somethingsynonym

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abbr
hundredweight

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cwt abbreviation (pl. cwt)
Word Origin:
[cwt cwt.] from Latin centum ‘a hundred’.

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