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Hundredweight vs Clough - What's the difference?

hundredweight | clough |

As a noun hundredweight

is a measure of weight containing 100 pounds (455 kg) in the us or 112 pounds (51 kg) in the united kingdom.

As a proper noun clough is

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hundredweight

English

(wikipedia hundredweight)

Alternative forms

* (abbreviation)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A measure of weight containing 100 pounds (45.5 kg) in the U.S. or 112 pounds (51 kg) in the United Kingdom.
  • *1882 : The hundredweight of 112 avoirdupois lbs. becomes general in the period before me, and is employed for the commoner kinds of materials. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209.

    • clough

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.
    • (Nares)
  • A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.
    • (Knight)
  • A cliff; a rocky precipice.
  • (label) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
  • (label) A wood; weald.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms

    * cloff

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

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