Avoirdupois Weight is used for weighing heavy articles as grain,
groceries, coarse metals, etc.
16 ounces (oz.) = 1 pound (lb.)
100 pounds = 1 hundredweight (cwt.)
20 hundredweight = 1 ton (T.)
Hundred-
Ton weight Pounds Ounces
1 = 20 = 2000 = 32000
Scale.--20, 100, 16.
In weighing coal at the mines and in levying duties at the United States
Custom House, the long ton of 2240 pounds is sometimes used.
The ounce is considered as 16 drams.
The unit is the pound. It contains 7000 grains.
The following denominations are also used:
14 pounds = 1 stone
100 pounds butter = 1 firkin
100 pound grain or flour = 1 cental
100 pounds dried fish = 1 quintal
100 pounds nails = 1 keg
196 pounds flour = 1 barrel
200 pounds pork or beef = 1 barrel
280 pounds salt at N. Y. works = 1 barrel