pennyweight
['peniweit]
n. 威特(英美金衡单位)

[医] 便士重(英衡,英两1/20)



pennyweight
[ noun ]
a unit of apothecary weight equal to 24 grains
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Pennyweight \Pen"ny*weight`\, 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.