great gross

American  

noun

1. a unit of quantity equivalent to 12 gross. GGR

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great gross British  

noun

1. a unit of quantity equal to one dozen gross (or 1728)

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Etymology

Origin of great gross

First recorded in 1525–35

Example Sentences

Beneath the baking streets, on a broiling subway platform, the Gentleman Scholar and his date run into a colleague and her heavyset husband, whose pores leak great gross torrents of sweat.

From Slate • Jan. 22, 2014

The whole school was grinning uncomfortably, and the Faculty was acting as if it was sitting, individually and collectively, on seventeen great gross of red-hot pins.

From At Good Old Siwash by Fitch, George

A great, gross, material creature, deaf to song, blind to beauty, dead to the spirit. 

From The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke by London, Jack

The great gross man looked upon his athletic young opponent, and folded his arms with a guttural chuckle.

From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

He was a great gross man, and his colour came and went on a large over-fed face; so that his uneasiness was obvious.

From London to Ladysmith via Pretoria by Churchill, Winston