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pennyweight
[ pen-ee-weyt ]
noun
- (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). : dwt, pwt
pennyweight
/ ˈpɛnɪˌweɪt /
noun
- a unit of weight equal to 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce (Troy)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pennyweight1
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Example Sentences
Forty thousand ounces of gold, mates, not a pennyweight less?'
A pennyweight, according to the old saying, is enough; for being thus used it bringeth two commodities.
Their minds, their wills, their efforts, their physical strength to the last ounce and pennyweight belonged indissolubly to him.
Scatter a pennyweight of it upon my tombstone; and so lay my in-fi-ni-te-si-mal ap-pa-ri-ti-on!
Equilibrium, however, was restored by the addition of a pennyweight and five grains to the opposite side.
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