Cwt

This legally mandated "floor price" should be at least $17.50 per cwt (a cwt is the standard measure for milk producers). ❋ Unknown (2009)

This "cwt" is not 100 pounds but 112 pounds, one twentieth of the English ton (our long ton) of 2,240 pounds. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt"). ❋ Unknown (2010)

How often do you see proper abbreviations, like cwt, these days? ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

It tells us that in two different things – 1 quarter of corn and x cwt. of iron, there exists in equal quantities something common to both. ❋ Skzbrust (2010)

For commercial vehicle cognescenti the van pictured is the 5/6 cwt 10hp 4 cylinder version, costing £140 plus £15 tax (in primer). ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

Nebraska Direct Choice Steer price by $7.15 per hundredweight (cwt) when the farm elasticity of demand for cattle also is considered, representing an $89.38 loss to cattle feeders for each fed steer sold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We were forced to leave at Pisania about five cwt. of rice, not having a sufficient number of asses to carry it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Carter, for example, notes in an 1841 entry: "… bought up 2 cwt Hay from Martin Culliton's Wife." ❋ Unknown (2005)

Yesterday we saved three cwt. of tomatoes for winter use, and about two tons of squash and pumpkin for the cattle, two of the former weighing 140 lbs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A lot of twenty-one, short eight cwt., sold to Weeks at $80. ❋ DEE BROWN (2007)

The bunkers still contained 52 tons of coal, and the daily consumption in the stoves was about 21 cwt. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cairo, at from fifty to one hundred patacks per cwt., or from ❋ Unknown (2004)

Of Venetian glass beads, from four to five hundred chests, of ten cwt. each, are sold annually at ❋ Unknown (2004)

Buaze fibre appears to resemble flax, and as prepared by you will be equal to flax worth £50 or £60 per ton, but we could hardly speak positively to the value unless we had 1 cwt. or 2 cwt. to try on our machinery. ❋ Unknown (2004)