Any particular quantity in it, therefore, a pound weight, for example, would appear to be five times dearer than before.

Duct is mostly air and the hangers used to hold it up are not designed for the 150+ pound weight of a person.

You are now receiving your supplies in pound weight.

The 80% scale versions were flown at 15,000 to 24,000 pound weight.

Wax was very scarce, so that few could afford a pound weight of it.

Before they went to sea, these men always considered a pound weight consisted of sixteen ounces.

Then a 20 pound weight would be used until exhaustion is reached.

I got about a quarter of a pound weight from my three pints, and more yet remained within the berries.

Laxalt compared it to having "a hundred pound weight around my neck."

If someone laid me down and put a five thousand pound weight on my chest, I would think gravity was a force.