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单词 stone-weight
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stone-weightn.

Forms: (Now usually as two words.)
A measure of weight: = stone n. 14. Also, a piece of metal of this weight, used in weighing, or as a standard.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > stone (fourteen pounds)
stone139.
stone-weighta1400
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weight > weighing specific amount
stone-weight1552
stone1556
poundstone1577
pound-weight1765
fifty-sixa1800
a1400 Sir Perc. 2024 The clobe wheyhed reghte wele,..The hede was of harde stele, Twelve stone weghte! There was iryne in the wande, Ten stone of the lande.
1552 Extracts Rec. Convent. Burghs Scot. (1870) I. 2 The stane wecht of Lanark.
1628 in A. Macdonald & J. Dennistoun Misc. Maitland Club (1843) III. ii. 369 For bringing from Edinburgh to Stirling xiij stane wecht of Calk oyle and Culloures.
1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 33 If a pound weighs down the scale, there is no doubt then but a stone weight will do it.
1835 Act 5 & 6 William IV c. 63 §11 By local Customs..the Denomination of the Stone Weight varies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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