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Meanings of pennyweights in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dwt"
Examples for "dwt"
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.
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.
Usage of pennyweights in English
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.
6
He had to put a number of pennyweights into the scale with his own before the two were balanced.
7
I have known it lose, by this process of purifying, as much as from five to six pennyweights in the ounce.
8
A ten-penny-weight pearl in Vienna might weigh eight or nine pennyweights here in California, or it is more likely to weigh twelve.
9
An old prospector will judge from six ounces of stuff within a few pennyweights what will be the yield of a ton.
10
The whole contains 2818 diamonds, 297 pearls, and many other jewels, and weighs thirty-nine ounces and five pennyweights.
11
Before the party returned to tea I had washed out all the stuff, and procured from it nearly two pennyweights of gold-dust, worth about 6s.
12
It is a large, heavy ring, weighing 1 ounce, 6 pennyweights, 12 grains, was worn on the thumb, and taken from the mummy at Memphis.
13
In the highlands he was walking with a man who found a piece weighing about thirty-five pennyweights, worth $29, but which he purchased for $4.
14
"Stop, minstrel," cried Mohi; "how many pennyweights did they weigh?"
15
"It is my custom," said the other, "to have three pennyweights of musk and half that quantity of ambergris put into each fritter."
16
"Let me see; twenty pennyweights in an ounce, and twelve ounces in a pound; that would be two hundred and forty dollars in a pound."
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Translations for pennyweights
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