What is a hundredweight?
A hundredweight, abbreviated as cwt, is a unit of weight commonly used in the imperial system of measurement.
There are two variations on hundredweights; the long hundredweight primarily used in the United Kingdom and the short hundredweight used in the United States.
In the imperial system, a long hundredweight is equal to 112 pounds or approximately 50.8 kilograms. The term "hundredweight" is derived from the fact that it originally represented the weight of 100 pounds of a particular commodity.
The short hundredweight is equal to 100 pounds or 45.35 kilograms.
What is a stone?
A stone is a unit of weight commonly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is equal to 14 pounds or approximately 6.35 kilograms. The stone is often used to measure the weight of a person or animals, as well as for certain goods such as fruit and vegetables. While not an official metric unit, the stone is still widely used in everyday life in these countries.
We provide a calculator on this site to convert stones to kilograms.
