hectolitre
IPA: hˈɛktoʊɫˈitɝ
noun
- A unit of volume or capacity equivalent to 100 litres. Symbol: hL
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Examples of "hectolitre" in Sentences
- I have no idea what a hectolitre is, but it sounds like an awful lot of wine.
- In 1881 M. Jooris gives it as 45,000,000 hectolitres (one hectolitre = 2.75 bushels).
- The average price of a cwt. of wheat is 6s; a pound of beef about 2-1/2d., a hectolitre
- Then they divide that up again into their decimetre, centimetre, millilitre, decalitre, hectolitre, and a kilolitre.
- Add to that the fact that 4x4s have become very popular in America, as people become wealthier - and those things just swallow petrol by the hectolitre.
- 'scutcheons the hectolitre, that is, eight sols the litre; what do I say? it is worth a Louis a cup: but I will sell it at the price I name, and not a penny less.
- However, the brewer also warned beer prices are set to go up this year, as it looks to pass on a 6 per cent increase in its costs per hectolitre as the price of malted barley rises.
- Their rivalry is a fight for the wallets of a hockey-mad, and thirsty, country: Canadians consumed 23.3 million hectolitres of domestic and imported beer in 2009 a hectolitre is 100 litres.
- This duty was fixed by the convention of 8 June, 1899, at seventy francs per hectolitre, fifty percent alcohol (about $1.57 a gallon), for a period of six years; an equivalent excise duty was laid on the manufacture of such liquors.
- It takes you a long time to say millilitre, hectolitre, etc., not to say inch, foot, yard; besides, these men think that the education in the school is for nothing more than for what you can get out of it for the practical part it plays in life.
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