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re-weigh, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To weigh again. Also absol.
1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 400 Order for re⁓weighing Pimento, to be taken from the Pile. 1849Ansted Gold-seeker's Man. 74 Weigh it first in air... Immerse it and re-weigh it in water. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 308 We re-weighing and opening in presence of English Post Office clerk.
2. intr. To amount to (so much) on being weighed again.
1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 405 Ten boxes of foreign clayed Sugar,..weighing, on delivery there, thirty-four hundred-weight and fifteen pounds, and re-weighing here thirty-four hundred-weight one quarter.
Hence re-weighing vbl. n. Also re-weigher.
1812J. Smyth Pract. Customs (1821) 361 The Warehouse⁓keeper..subscribes the re-weighing Note. 1820Ibid. (1821) 360 The necessary order for the re-weighing of three Casks of Currants. 1878Olver & Midlane Imperial Tariff (1879) 82 The date of re-weighing or re-examination. 1883Cable Dr. Sevier i, Cotton factors, buyers, brokers, weighers, re⁓weighers, etc. |