Hundred-Weight
in avoirdupois weights, a weight containing by the legal standard in England 112 pounds. In the United United States it is 100 pound avoirduis subdivided into four quarters. It is usually written cwt. Twenty hundred weights make one ton. An English long hundred-weight is 180 pounds.
HUNDSRÜCK, an extensive and mountainous district of Rhenish Prussia, thickly wooded, and rising, at intervals, to a height of 3,000 feet. It lies between and the Nahe, and joins the mountain chain of the Vosges.