avoirdupois

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“The Cook” looms up about an inch and a half higher than Johnny, but averages about the same avoirdupois when placed upon the balance.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2019

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

Thus so many drams of powder required to charge a rifle is a very much larger quantity when reckoned in apothecaries' drams than when reckoned in avoirdupois.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew