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Meanings of pound weight in English
A unit of force: the force exerted by one standard gravity on a one-pound mass.
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Usage of pound weight in English
1
Nothing has actually changed about the ten- pound weight-exceptyour perception of it.
2
She felt as though she had a ten-thousand- pound weight on her shoulders.
3
I feel as if a thousand- pound weight was taken off my back.
4
We have killed this morning four fish averaging a pound weight each.
5
It was as if each thought came with a thousand- pound weight.
6
A pound weight on the moon would scale six pounds on the earth.
7
Imagine hanging upside down with a 660- pound weight in your hand.
8
In my lap there's a 20- pound weight anchoring me in place.
9
Suddenly Lionel felt as though a thousand- pound weight had been lifted from him.
10
That's where Crawley outmuscled him for the pick despite a 75- pound weight disadvantage.
11
I am going to fasten to it a hundred pound weight.
12
Putting a hundred pound weight upon it is an experiment that is perilous.
13
Not as telling as the thirty- pound weight loss, but still bad.
14
It's as heavy as a hundred- pound weight, and prevents me from turning round.
15
A thousand- pound weight she'd carried for a lifetime had been lifted from her heart.
16
This measures the rope's stretch when holding a 176- pound weight.