weightman

[ weyt-man ]

noun

, plural weight·men.

1. a person whose work is to weigh goods or merchandise.
2. Also weight man. Track and Field. a competitor in a field event who throws a weight, as a discus, shotput, or hammer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of weightman¹

First recorded in 1945–50; weight + man

Example Sentences

Dobriskey's British team-mate Laura Weightman finished 11th in the race 12 years ago but that has risen to sixth as a result of others having their results removed.

From BBC

Fans of “Wuthering Heights” — not to mention “Jane Eyre,” Charlotte’s equally famous entry in the family’s literary sensation sweepstakes — will instantly recognize Weightman as a leading man lifted directly from the Brontë mold: initially forbidding, judgmental and withholding, only to succumb to helpless adoration once the superior character of his beloved and the windswept romance of the Yorkshire moors have their desired effect.

From Washington Post

Brontë fundamentalists might object; Weightman, for one, was real, the affair apparently not, alas.

From New York Times

In their passionate intensity and in some narrative particulars — there are outdoor rendezvous and some spying through windows — Emily’s relationships with both Branwell and Weightman suggestively evoke that between Catherine and Heathcliff in “Wuthering Heights.”

From New York Times

Although historians concur that Anne Brontë — and possibly Charlotte — fancied Weightman, there is no evidence that Emily did.

From Los Angeles Times