hundredweight

«hundredweight» in Mova's school dictionary: a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

A hundredweight is a unit for weighing heavy things: in Britain it is 112 pounds, and in America it is 100 pounds. tree →

sense 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 →
• He could not lift a hundredweight of stone. tree →
• The cart carried three hundredweight of apples. tree →

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

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hundredweight» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.