pennyweight

Day's hard work for two men might get you a pennyweight of gold.

It draws at sixty pounds - not a pennyweight too much for a man of your inches.

"I swear that no man shall receive a pennyweight of what you have taken.

He plunked the chain on a small electronic scale: 14 pennyweight.

The pennyweight also bears no relation to the weight of current penny coins.

Equilibrium, however, was restored by the addition of a pennyweight and five grains to the opposite side.

The pennyweight is the common weight used in the valuation and measurement of precious metals.

Dad had nuggets all of a pennyweight, plenty of times."

Though it weighed not a pennyweight more.

Pennyweight of powder in a skull.

The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction.

Not a pennyweight.

'Mercenary rules mean the one who started it gets the heavier punishment, even if only by pennyweight.'

The medieval English pennyweight was thus equal to 32 Tower grains (also known as wheat grains).

Twelve grammes one pennyweight.

"I'll give you fifty pennyweight of fine gold for the girl," the Drasnian panted, waving his leather sack again.

After 1527, the English pennyweight was the Troy pennyweight.

Pennyweight (1999)

'We'll manage a few pennyweight of spice.'

Jewelers use the pennyweight in calculating the amount and cost of precious metals used in fabricating or casting jewellery.

He desperately wanted to accept we could rid him of his hated foe but every pennyweight of sense tipped his scales to disbelief.

Pennyweight (dwt)

The Tower pound was divided into 12 ounces, each ounce into 20 pennyweights, and each pennyweight into 32 grains.

'Thirty-three hundredweight, three pounds, three ounces, three pennyweight.

Similarly, dentists and dental labs still use the pennyweight as the measure of precious metals in dental crowns and inlays.