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Pennyweight

noun
1.
A unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains.





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"Pennyweight" Quotes from Famous Books



... touch it until they had housed themselves. At daybreak they were at work, and soon all were washing out pans of gravel at the stream; the results fully justified their expectations,—there being a residuum of glittering grains at the bottom of each pan varying in weight from a pennyweight to ...
— Captain Bayley's Heir: - A Tale of the Gold Fields of California • G. A. Henty
... before-mentioned, Alderman,' said Mr. Filer, 'by the estimated number of existing widows and orphans, and the result will be one pennyweight of tripe to each. Not a grain is left for that man. Consequently, he's ...
— The Chimes • Charles Dickens


Words linked to "Pennyweight" :   troy unit, apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce, ounce, grain


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