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Meanings of dwt in English
Measurement of a ship's weight carrying capacity.
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Unit of mass.
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Examples for "pennyweight"
Examples for "pennyweight"
1
Scarce a pennyweight of honest horse-flesh to be seen.
2
It draws at sixty pounds-nota pennyweight too much for a man of your inches.
3
Twenty pennyweight in an ounce, and there we have nineteen dollars and twenty cents per ounce.
4
Thirteen ounces fourteen pennyweight and twenty Grains of Gold deliverd to the said Adams by .
5
He wanted but one thing now-andhis whole kingdom did not weigh one pennyweight against it.
1
At Achin the bangkal of thirty pennyweights twenty-one grains, is the standard.
2
A gold dollar piece and nearly two pennyweights of Californian gold dust.
3
Got twenty-eight pennyweights out of the load.
4
They worked hard enough during the day, but only brought back three pennyweights of gold-dust with them.
5
This first piece of gold is now in the possession of Mrs. Weimer, and weighs six pennyweights eleven grains.
Culture collection in Oceania.
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Usage of dwt in English
1
Near it was found a golden neck-ornament, weighing 2 dwt.
2
China in February issued ship design guidelines recognising ships of 400,000 dwt.
3
The 23,709 dwt cargo ship had three Greek officers a Filipino crew.
4
The 22,294 dwt tanker had a crew of 28 North Koreans.
5
The British standard has 18 dwt.
6
The 38,305 dwt bulk carrier was seized west of the Seychelles.
7
Its dry bulk fleet consists of approximately nine vessels aggregating over 0.59 Mn dwt.
8
There are many mines where 3 to 4 dwt.
9
The 1984-built, 38,305 dwt bulk carrier was seized around 180 nautical miles west of Seychelles.
10
The 23,709 dwt cargo ship had a crew including three Greek officers and the rest Filipinos.
11
The 53,629 dwt bulk carrier had 21 crew on board from the Ukraine and the Philippines.
12
The dwt 300,294 tonnes tanker carried nine Greeks, two Ukrainians, one Romanian and 16 Filipinos on board.
13
The vessel, a 7,000 dwt product carrier, was built in 1982 and acquired by Jones in 1983.
14
The 34,173 dwt bulk carrier, believed to be carrying sulphate, was hijacked with 23 Turkish crew aboard.
15
The 1996-built, 23,709 dwt cargo-ship had a crew of around 24 including three Greek officers and the remainder Filipinos.
16
Last week, Great Eastern Shipping took the delivery of the crude oil carrier with 318,000 dwt from Hyundai Heavy Industries.
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Russian
Dwt through the time