- 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.
- Length unit - Unit of length - A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the
thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.