thousandweight rare.
(ˈθaʊzəndweɪt)
A weight of a thousand pounds.
| 1538 Elyot, Milliarius, a, um, of a thousande weight. 1552 Huloet, Thousande weyght, millepondium. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 176 Sulphure is there so plentifull that you may for the 4. part of a ducate, haue a thousande weight. 1667 Primatt City & C. Build. 99 A thousand weight of Lead taken up in Pipes, Gutters, and in Ridges. 1685 Lond. Gaz. No. 2064/4, 40 thousand weight of Powder. 1768 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 113/2 The Sherborne waggon was stopped by the populace, and about a thousand weight of butter taken away. |