Weight
- pund – pound, from 1683 the weight of 1/62 fot³ of water, 499.75 g (1.1 lb)
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Famous quotes containing the word weight:
“I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world’s altar-stairs
That slope thro’ darkness up to God,”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
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