- 112 pounds - A denomination of weight, containing 100, 112, or
120 pounds avoirdupois, according to differing laws or customs. By the
legal standard of England it is 112 pounds. In most of the United
States, both in practice and by law, it is 100 pounds avoirdupois, the
corresponding ton of 2,000 pounds, sometimes called the short ton,
being the legal ton.
- A hundredweight, either 112 or 100 pounds, according to
the scale used. Cf. Cental. - A metric measure of weight, being 100,000 grams, or 100
kilograms, equal to 220.46 pounds avoirdupois.
- A weight divisible first into a hundred parts, and then
into smaller parts. - The commercial hundredweight in several of the continental
countries, varying in different places from 100 to about 112 pounds.
- District - One fourth - One of four - Three months - One of four equal parts into which anything is divided, or
is regarded as divided; a fourth part or portion; as, a quarter of a
dollar, of a pound, of a yard, of an hour, etc. - The fourth of a hundred-weight, being 25 or 28 pounds,
according as the hundredweight is reckoned at 100 or 112 pounds. - The fourth of a ton in weight, or eight bushels of grain;
as, a quarter of wheat; also, the fourth part of a chaldron of coal.