What does long hundredweight mean?

long hundredweight means "a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds".

What is another word for long hundredweight?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, cwt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is long hundredweight a common word?

long hundredweight is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

long hundredweight — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
Synonymshundredweight cwt
Broaderavoirdupois unit
Part oflong ton
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