Definition of "pennyweight" []

• A unit of troy weight equal to 24 grains, 1/20 of a troy ounce or approximately 1.555 grams. (noun)

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• "Gold is measured in troy ounces, often paid based on pennyweight, which is 1/20th of a troy ounce."
• "The trees, burdened with the last infinitesimal pennyweight of snow their branches could hold, stood in absolute petrifaction."
• "Equilibrium, however, was restored by the addition of a pennyweight and five grains to the opposite side."