hundredweight
noun
hun·dred·weight ˈhən-drəd-ˌwāt 
-dərd-ˌwāt
plural hundredweight or hundredweights
1
: a unit of weight equal to 100 pounds
called also short hundredweight
see Weights and Measures Table2
British : a unit of weight equal to 112 pounds
called also long hundredweight
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web However, sweet corn tends to come from Washington state, with 15.4 million hundredweight, then Minnesota with approximately 15.3 million, before dropping down to Wisconsin with about 10 million. 
Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021 But the best repository for the history of the Revolution was the Hoover Institution, which was always inviting me to come and do some more work there, and sending photocopies of materials by the hundredweight. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020 Revenue per hundredweight, a measure of pricing strength, rose 2.3% in August from the previous year, excluding fuel surcharges. Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020 Front-month rough rice futures on the CME traded as high as 23.565 cents per hundredweight Friday before giving up some of that gain in recent sessions. Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 10 June 2020 In the 2019 legislative session, Gov. Larry Hogan devoted $1.5 million to cover one year’s worth of premiums for farmers that wanted to buy into the program at the highest level — $9.50 per hundredweight of milk, according to Connelly. Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Oct. 2019 Other payments were $8 per head for hogs and 12 cents per hundredweight for milk. Washington Post, 3 July 2019 Prices of beef cuts have also been falling, with select beef cutout dropping 4% over the same period to $213.29 per hundredweight, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.... Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 7 May 2019 Since Mexico imposed its tariffs, Agri-Mark has cuts its forecast to $17 a hundredweight. Heather Haddon, WSJ, 5 July 2018 See More
Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021 But the best repository for the history of the Revolution was the Hoover Institution, which was always inviting me to come and do some more work there, and sending photocopies of materials by the hundredweight. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2020 Revenue per hundredweight, a measure of pricing strength, rose 2.3% in August from the previous year, excluding fuel surcharges. Jennifer Smith, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2020 Front-month rough rice futures on the CME traded as high as 23.565 cents per hundredweight Friday before giving up some of that gain in recent sessions. Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 10 June 2020 In the 2019 legislative session, Gov. Larry Hogan devoted $1.5 million to cover one year’s worth of premiums for farmers that wanted to buy into the program at the highest level — $9.50 per hundredweight of milk, according to Connelly. Mary Grace Keller, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 1 Oct. 2019 Other payments were $8 per head for hogs and 12 cents per hundredweight for milk. Washington Post, 3 July 2019 Prices of beef cuts have also been falling, with select beef cutout dropping 4% over the same period to $213.29 per hundredweight, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.... Kirk Maltais, WSJ, 7 May 2019 Since Mexico imposed its tariffs, Agri-Mark has cuts its forecast to $17 a hundredweight. Heather Haddon, WSJ, 5 July 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1