Significados de pennyweights em inglês

At Achin the bangkal of thirty pennyweights twenty-one grains, is the standard.

A gold dollar piece and nearly two pennyweights of Californian gold dust.

Got twenty-eight pennyweights out of the load.

They worked hard enough during the day, but only brought back three pennyweights of gold-dust with them.

This first piece of gold is now in the possession of Mrs. Weimer, and weighs six pennyweights eleven grains.

He had to put a number of pennyweights into the scale with his own before the two were balanced.

I have known it lose, by this process of purifying, as much as from five to six pennyweights in the ounce.

A ten-penny-weight pearl in Vienna might weigh eight or nine pennyweights here in California, or it is more likely to weigh twelve.

An old prospector will judge from six ounces of stuff within a few pennyweights what will be the yield of a ton.

The whole contains 2818 diamonds, 297 pearls, and many other jewels, and weighs thirty-nine ounces and five pennyweights.

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.

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.

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.

"Stop, minstrel," cried Mohi; "how many pennyweights did they weigh?"

"It is my custom," said the other, "to have three pennyweights of musk and half that quantity of ambergris put into each fritter."

"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."