avoirdupois
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Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018
They were neck and neck for the first 200 feet, The Post reported, “but then Kennard’s avoirdupois began to tell on his speed, and the one-legged man took the lead.”
From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2015
Even the obesity rate ballooned to 31.5 percent, putting Michigan among the five fattest states, in the same league of avoirdupois as Alabama and West Virginia.
From Salon • May 12, 2013
The cold remains a mystery, more prone to fell men than women, more lethal to the thin and well muscled than to those with avoirdupois, and least forgiving to the arrogant and the unaware.
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2013
The quantity of coffee imported from British possessions abroad in 1850, was upward of forty millions of pounds avoirdupois; and a very large proportion of this came from Ceylon.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various
