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pennyweight

[ pen-ee-weyt ]

noun

  1. (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). : dwt, pwt


pennyweight

/ ˈpɛnɪˌweɪt /

noun

  1. a unit of weight equal to 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce (Troy)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pennyweight1

1350–1400; Middle English penyweight, Old English penega gewihte. See penny, weight
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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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