avoirdupois

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Insofar as the notion of the American avoirdupois pound has any official meaning, it is by relation to the kilogram, of which, by law, it is 0.45359237.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

They were neck and neck for the first 200 feet, The Post reported, “but then Kennard’s avoirdupois began to tell on his speed, and the one-legged man took the lead.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 20, 2015

Even the obesity rate ballooned to 31.5 percent, putting Michigan among the five fattest states, in the same league of avoirdupois as Alabama and West Virginia.

From Salon • May 12, 2013

The cold remains a mystery, more prone to fell men than women, more lethal to the thin and well muscled than to those with avoirdupois, and least forgiving to the arrogant and the unaware.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2013

Lady Caroline Sellwood was honestly dishonest to the last ounce of her two hundredweight of avoirdupois.

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)