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n. Avoirdupois weight.

n. Informal Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.

n. The official system of weights used in UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300 CE.

n. The official system of weights used in USA between 1866 and 1959.

n. Weight; heaviness.

adjective-and-noun. Goods sold by weight.

adjective-and-noun. Avoirdupois weight.

adjective-and-noun. Weight; heaviness.

n. A system of weight in which one pound contains 16 ounces.

n. The weight of anything according to the avoirdupois system: as, his avoirdupois was 150 pounds.

n. Also written averdupois, and often abbreviated to avoir. and avdp.

n. a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains)

n. excess bodily weight

"SAVE THE POUND (avoirdupois) If the word avoirdupois sounds a bit foreign too it is from French and Middle English (Anglo-French) avoir de pois, "goods of weight" or "goods sold by weight"."

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