| 单词 | mark weight |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmark weight a. Designating a weight or weight unit based on the standard weight of a mark, as mark pound, mark weight. Now historical. ΚΠ a1500 Tracts Eng. Weights & Meas. 18 in Camden Misc. (1929) XV xvj marke li. make a lyse li.] 1554 J. Hasse Coines, Weights & Meas. Russia in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1903) ii. 275 The marke pound is to be understood as our pound. 1576–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 601 Deduceing onelie for his panis sex schillingis for the merk wecht. 1629 in R. W. Cochran-Patrick Rec. Coinage Scotl. (1876) II. 18 Sax score and eight of the saids twa pennie peeces to be in the marke weight with three of the peeces of remeid. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mark-weight, a foreign weight commonly of 8 Ounces; and Mark-Pound is two such Marks, or 16 Ounces. 1902 D. Macleane Coronation 123 [The oblation of] a ‘Purse of Gold’ was, until Victoria, ‘a Mark weight of gold’—i.e. 8 ounces troy. 1979 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 40 306 To prevent the ambiguity between the coin and weight from causing confusion..the half-pound will indicate the mark weight. < as lemmas |
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