short hundredweight

1. 1.

   a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

   Synonymshundredweightcwtcentnercentalquintal

   Broaderavoirdupois unit

   Part ofshort ton

   Partsquarter

Questions about short hundredweight

What does short hundredweight mean?

short hundredweight means "a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds".

What is another word for short hundredweight?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, cwt, centner, cental, quintal. 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 short hundredweight a common word?

short 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.