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long hundredweight

American  

noun

  1. a hundredweight of 112 pounds (50.8 kilograms), the usual hundredweight in Great Britain, but now rare in the United States.

long hundredweight British  

noun

  1. the full name for hundredweight

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Etymology

Origin of long hundredweight

First recorded in 1930–35

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