great gross

This allowed for a greater gross weight to be designed into the aircraft.

There must be at least a hundred citizens descended from my great gross grandparents.

A greater gross national product meant that local authorities could be more generous towards the poor.

A great gross refers to a group of 1728 items (a dozen gross).

-protruding from beneath the great gross body of Ludwig, and hatred was driven away by hope.

It was a great gross mask of evil, of cold cruelty and callous lusts.

Baseball's Great Gross Outs (1989 - 88 stickers)

'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'

Similarly, in duodecimal "100" means "1 gross", "1000" means "1 great gross", and "0.1" means "1 twelfth" (instead of their decimal meanings "1 hundred", "1 thousand", and "1 tenth").

Gloriously crazed with the succulent aroma of impending victory, she dispensed with the niceties, leaned over the platter, and proceeded to shovel great gross gobs of the gravy-laden potatoes into her mouth with both hands like human conveyer-belt.

Because of several measurements based on twelve, many Western languages have words for base-twelve units such as dozen, gross and great gross, which allow for rudimentary duodecimal nomenclature, such as "two gross six dozen" for 360.

"Well," said Orain, again with that droll curl of his lip, looking down at the great gross body of the sentry-bird, "We could call this one Beauty, that one Lovely, and that one over there we might call Gorgeous.

Even though English has names for several non-decimal powers (pair for the first binary power, score for the first vigesimal power, dozen, gross, and great gross for the first three duodecimal powers), no English name describes the hexadecimal powers (decimal 16, 256, 4096, 65536, ... ).