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Definition of Pennyweight

Pennyweight
Pennyweight Pen"ny*weight`, n. A troy weight containing twenty-four grains, or the twentieth part of an ounce; as, a pennyweight of gold or of arsenic. It was anciently the weight of a silver penny, whence the name.

Meaning of Pennyweight from wikipedia

- A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of m**** equal to 24 grains, 1⁄20 of a troy ounce, 1⁄240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly...
- industry. The troy weight units are the grain, the pennyweight (24 grains), the troy ounce (20 pennyweights), and the troy pound (12 troy ounces). The troy...
- pound and one pennyweight. In what follows, "dollar" will be used as a unit of m****. A troy pound being 5760 grains and a pennyweight being 240 times...
- The tower pound displa**** as the weight of a pound sterling of 240 early silver pennies (original pennyweight)...
- series was 1⁄240 of the Saxon pound of 5400 grains (350 grams), giving a pennyweight of about 1.46 grams. His queen Cynethryth also minted these coins under...
- rings were 10 carat and between 20 and 25 pennyweight, modern rings are typically 14 carat and 50 pennyweight.[disputed – discuss] The rings commissioned...
- coinage should contain 11 ounces 2+1⁄4 pennyweights of silver and 17+3⁄4 pennyweights of alloy, with 20 pennyweights to the troy ounce. This is (not precisely)...
- quarter, abolished the use of the bushel and peck, and abolished the pennyweight (from 31 January 1969). Hide four to eight bovates. A unit of yield,...
- between the grain and ounce (apothecaries' has scruple and dram, troy has pennyweight, and avoirdupois has just dram, sometimes spelled drachm). The dram in...
- appeared in the fantasy film Troll. In 1987, he portra**** "Sir Nigel Pennyweight" in the cult horror film Ghoulies II. In the same year, he appeared as...