1. A unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms in the metric system
   "The farmer sold his grain by the metric hundredweight";
   - metric hundredweight, doppelzentner, centner
    
2. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
   "The farmer sold his produce by the short hundredweight";
   - cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental [archaic], quintal
    
3. A British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
   "The shipment weighed three long hundredweight";
   - cwt, long hundredweight [Brit]

Derived forms: hundredweights

Type of: avoirdupois unit, metric weight unit, weight unit

Part of: gross ton, long ton, net ton, quintal, short ton, ton

Encyclopedia: Hundredweight