How to use cwt in a sentence
It is said to be in perfect condition now, the tenor bell weighing 26 cwt.
Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey | Thomas PerkinsHis proposal was substantially a protective duty of twenty shillings the cwt.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanThe daily consumption of ice in Lima is between fifty and fifty-five cwt.
I concluded I would not take it for two reasons: First, if they had but one cwt.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 | E. S. (Eleazer Stillman) IngallsThe furnaces have a mid-rib dividing the product into two balls of 10 cwt., which are shingled under a 10-ton hammer.
British Dictionary definitions for cwt
cwt
abbreviation for
hundredweight
Origin of cwt
1c, from the Latin numeral C one hundred (centum)
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