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
- : 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.
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