pennyweight
(in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt
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How to use pennyweight in a sentence
Forty thousand ounces of gold, mates, not a pennyweight less?'
Grif | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonA pennyweight, according to the old saying, is enough; for being thus used it bringeth two commodities.
Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present | John TimbsTheir minds, their wills, their efforts, their physical strength to the last ounce and pennyweight belonged indissolubly to him.
A Man's Woman | Frank NorrisScatter a pennyweight of it upon my tombstone; and so lay my in-fi-ni-te-si-mal ap-pa-ri-ti-on!
Memoirs of a Midget | Walter de la MareEquilibrium, however, was restored by the addition of a pennyweight and five grains to the opposite side.
The God of His Fathers | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for pennyweight
/ (ˈpɛnɪˌweɪt) /
a unit of weight equal to 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce (Troy)
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