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Weigher

noun
1.
An official who weighs and records the weight.





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"Weigher" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hawthorne, whose worldly success had been slight, to marry an invalid wife. Fortune, however, was not wholly unkind, and George Bancroft, whose attention had been called to Hawthorne's needs, gave him an appointment at the Boston Custom House as weigher and gauger, at a salary of twelve hundred dollars. It was this opportunity, possibly, which emboldened Hawthorne to take the final step; and marriage would be hoped for, should this experiment of entering on a ...
— Nathaniel Hawthorne • George E. Woodberry


Words linked to "Weigher" :   functionary, weigh, official


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