Noun cwt has 2 senses
  1. hundredweight, cwt, short hundredweight, centner, cental, quintal - a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds
    --1 is a kind of avoirdupois unit
    --1 is a part of short ton, ton, net ton
    --1 has parts: quarter
  2. hundredweight, cwt, long hundredweight - a British unit of weight equivalent to 112 pounds
    --2 is a kind of avoirdupois unit
    --2 is a part of long ton, ton, gross ton
    --2 has parts: quarter
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