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pennyweight

/pen-ee-weyt/US // ˈpɛn iˌweɪt //UK // (ˈpɛnɪˌweɪt) //

便宜货,便士,便宜的,便利货

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce. Abbreviation: dwt, pwt

Examples

  • 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.