different between hundredweight vs clough

English

Alternative forms

• cwt. (abbreviation)

Etymology

16th century, from hundred +? weight.

Noun

hundredweight (plural hundredweight or hundredweights)

1. (Canada, US) A measure of weight containing 100 avoirdupois pounds (45.5 kg).

   Synonyms: (historical) cental, (rare) centner, short hundredweight, (historical) quintal

2. (Britain) A measure of weight containing 8 stone or 112 avoirdupois pounds (51 kg).

   Synonyms: long hundredweight, imperial hundredweight

Usage notes

• The short hundredweight is commonly used in the US in the sale of livestock and some cereal grains and oilseeds, paper, and concrete additives and on some commodities in futures exchanges. Since increasing metrication in most English-speaking countries the long hundredweight is now less used.

• The older designation and measure of weight quintal (“hundredweight”) is not standardized; see the usage notes there for more information.

Descendants

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  • Bengali: ????? (hôndôr)

See also

• bushel
• quintal

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English clough, clow, clogh, Old English *cl?h, from Proto-Germanic *klanhaz, *klanh? (“cleft, sluice, abyss”), of unknown origin. Cognate with Scots cleuch (“gorge; ravine”), Old High German kl?h (in placenames), Old High German klingo, klinga (“brook, cataract, gulf, rapids”). Perhaps conflated or influenced by Old Norse klofi (“a cleft or rift in a hill, ravine”); compare Dutch kloof (“a slit, crevice, chink”). See also cling, clove.

Alternative forms

• cleugh, cleuch (Scotland)
• cleugh (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kl?f/, /kla?/

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

1. (Northern England, US) A narrow valley; a cleft in a hillside; a ravine, glen, or gorge.

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2. A sluice used in returning water to a channel after depositing its sediment on the flooded land.

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3. A cliff; a rocky precipice.
4. (dialectal) The cleft or fork of a tree; crotch.
5. (dialectal) A wood; weald.

Derived terms

• Howden Clough

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Alternative forms

• cloff

Pronunciation

Noun

clough (plural cloughs)

1. Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundredweight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “clough”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• clough in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.