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1622 T. Scott Newes from Pernassus 31 The vast Ottoman Empire was put into the Scale... The Venetians..could not beleeue such a fall; whereupon they desired, that with more diligence it might be reweighed.

1678 J. Vernon Compl. Compting-house 22 The Weight should hold out again when it is re-weighed.

1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya II. xvi. viii. 492 If a person sell saffron, on condition of its being two Mâns, the purchaser is not afterwards at liberty to dispose of it by sale or by any other mode without reweighing it.

1799 tr. A. H. J. Lafontaine St. Julien I. 37 I had composed a well-digested plan of operations; weighed and reweighed every argument.

1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) iii. 400 Order for re-weighing Pimento, to be taken from the Pile.

1849 D. T. Ansted Gold-seeker's Man. 74 Weigh it first in air... Immerse it and re-weigh it in water.

1913 Jrnl. Inst. Metals 9 102 We need to reweigh and determine the aluminium remaining undissolved.

1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Feb. 33/3 Nearly five km and three hours above Sheep Camp, we reached the ‘Scales’, where packers hired by the stampeders would re-weigh their loads.

1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) iii. 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.

1874 Warehouseman & Draper's Trade Jrnl. 28 Nov. 597/1 The following is a copy of a certificate received from Mobile, signed Lee Simpson, cotton reweigher.

1879 in Acts Gen. Assembly Alabama 1878–9 360 Seller's weigher shall not weigh any cotton for delivery without the presence of the buyer's reweigher.

1991 E. Arnesen Waterfront Workers New Orleans (1994) ii. 40 A reweigher in the employ of a purchaser of cotton determined the accuracy of the weight.