Pennyweight

['penɪweɪt] or ['pɛnɪ,wet]

Definition

(noun.) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains.

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Definition

(n.) A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

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