avoirdupois

How To Use avoirdupois In A Sentence

• A unit of weight in the U.S. Customary System, an avoirdupois unit equal to 0.002285 ounce ( 0.065 gram ).
• SAVE THE POUND (avoirdupois) If the word avoirdupois sounds a bit foreign too it is from French and Middle English (Anglo-French) avoir de pois, "goods of weight" or "goods sold by weight". Archive 2007-10-21
• Dalgleish's retirement makes him the latest in a long line of jockeys having to admit that their avoirdupois is just too great a burden.
• There are two series of weights in use among us; the one called avoirdupois, the other troy. Reports and Opinions While Secretary of State
• The stigmas can only be picked by hand, and it requires 70,000 flowers to obtain one pound avoirdupois of saffron; or 0.5 hectares to yield about 4.5 kg of dried saffron.
• I find several comments reflecting my interest in an accurate rifle, without complaining overly much about the avoirdupois. Rifles of Interest, Vol. 1
• That my current hometown of Washington hasn't gnawed its way into this rating is a bit shocking, considering the ample avoirdupois on the streets of your nation's capital.
• These versions, however, highlight the burglar's avoirdupois in a way that the writer almost surely didn't want, and they lose the nice increasing-weight effect of, which puts the longest, heaviest descriptor last.
• The celebrator of fullness, he is the fat cook not only because of his personal avoirdupois but also because he writes his signature with butter on a dish already heavy with suet and cream.
• Just as the apothecary and avoirdupois systems of measurement have faded from our texts so should Young's, Cowling's, Fried's, and Clarke's equations fade into history.