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Avoirdupois, Avoirs-de-pois, or Aver-du-pois
Avoirs-de-pois, or Aver-du-pois [O. fr.] (to have weight), a method of weighing goods, allowing 16 ounces to the pound, whilst Troy weight allows but 12. See Weights and Measures Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 49);
Auncel weight
beam or staff. See ANSEL. What were called stilliards, a sort of hand-weighing among butchers, which show the pounds by certain notches on a beam, were similar to the auncel weight, Jac. Law Dict.
Agricultural rates
of the occupier) of agricultural land shall be liable to one quarter only of the rate in the pound payable in respect of buildings and other hereditaments. These exemptions were preserved by the (English) Rating and Valuation
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A.B
the purpose of obtaining a rating as A.B. renders the offender liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. [(English) Merchant Shipping Act, 1906, s. 58(2)]
Shilling
of account of Great Britain and its dependencies equal to twelve pence or the twentieth part of a pound equivalent to about twenty four cents of the United States currency
Sheepshead
Diplodus probatocephalus found on the Atlantic coast of the United States It often weighs from ten to twelve pounds
VerbarSemuncia
A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty fourth part of a Roman pound
Scots
Of or pertaining to the Scotch Scotch Scottish as Scots law a pound Scots 1s 8d
Sarplar
A large bale or package of wool containing eighty tods or 2240 pounds in weight
Impalare
Impalare, to put in a pound, Du Cange.
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