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Noun: short hundredweight  short 'hún-drud,weyt
  1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
    "The farmer sold his produce by the short hundredweight";
    - hundredweight, cwt, centner, cental [archaic], quintal

Derived forms: short hundredweights

Type of: avoirdupois unit

Part of: net ton, short ton, ton

Encyclopedia: Short hundredweight