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“Let it die by itself, rather than by the chain saw,” said John Arrison, an electrical contractor who is also a town selectman, justice of the peace and weigher of coal.

From New York Times • May 27, 2021

In a notable report to his papers, Cowles, a careful weigher of facts and forces, summed up his impressions of "The U.S. and the World Today."

From Time Magazine Archive

From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector.

From Time Magazine Archive

Parting from Heqet inside the gate, Ranofer hurried into the shop to begin his first task, that of helping the weigher and the scribe issue each man’s portion of gold.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

In fact it had taken Rekh and his weigher all these months to decide that it was not the scales.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw