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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/#m1)

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hundredweight» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hundredweight/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.