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hundred weight

[huhn-drid-weyt]

hun·dred·weight

[huhn-drid-weyt]
noun, plural -weights, (as after a numeral) -weight.
1.
Also called cental, quintal. a unit of avoirdupois weight commonly equivalent to 100 pounds (45.359 kilograms) in the U.S. Abbreviation: cwt
2.
cental (def. 2).

Origin:
1570–80; hundred + weight
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Hundred weight is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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