Definitions
Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cwts.
Examples
-
The flour and meal imported, omitting sago, arrowroot and other starches, averaged in the same period 4,143,603 cwts. annually.
-
The quantity of rice retained for home consumption, by the corrected returns, in 1850, was 401,018 cwts. and 35,119 quarters; in 1851,
-
Stowmarket factory, where blocks varying from the armour-piercing shell charge of a few ounces up to blocks of compressed gun-cotton mechanically true, weighing 4 to 5 cwts. for torpedoes or submarine mines, are now produced.
-
Ceylon exported two and a half millions of cwts. of coffee.
-
In New South Wales the quantity of superphosphate usually used is 56 lbs. per acre, and the same quantity is generally applied in Victoria, but in South Australia the dressings are much heavier, running from 1 cwt. to 2 cwts. per acre.
Wheat Growing in Australia Australia. Dept. of External Affairs
-
Equivalent Costs per lb., cwt., and ton -- Decimal Equivalents of lbs., qrs., and cwts.
The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech
-
The engines were divided into two classes, the large class consisting of those weighing over 30 cwts., and not exceeding 60 cwts. and the small class of those not exceeding 30 cwts.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
-
The chief centre of the soap industry is Marseilles, which, with about fifty soap factories, produces annually some 3,000,000 cwts.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture H. A. Appleton
-
There is not as yet a uniform weight for a bag of cacao, although they all vary between one and two cwt., thus the bags from Africa contain 1-1/4 cwts., whilst those from
Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer Arthur William Knapp
-
A good manure is made by mixing 64 bushels of lime with 2 cwts. of salt.
Gardening for the Million Alfred Pink
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.