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poundage
noun as in preponderancy
noun as in weight
noun as in weight
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
While the prize money was substantial, thanks to the pumpkin’s poundage, Mr. Gienger invested a significant sum in growing it, spending $15,000 on it from the time it was planted on April 10.
Each piece of royal hardware presented to him during his installation — orb, bejeweled sword, robes upon robes — seemed to add psychic poundage.
In the nearly six decades since, a significant poundage of our cranial tissue has been pretty much retired from active duty.
Ruth, as he put on the poundage and the paunch, the Yankees put their ballplayers in pinstripe uniforms because it made Ruth look slimmer.
Pandemic tax reliefs for businesses are also to be extended, while the poundage rate of non-domestic rates is to be cut for the first time in the history of devolution.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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