Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A long and slender casting of some cheap metal hung by a sash-cord in the casing of a window-frame and used to counterbalance the weight of the sash.
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Examples
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Sally heard this because she had pulled down the top sash of her window to breathe the sea air, regardless of the fact she well knew, and described thus -- that the sash-weight stuck and clunkled and wouldn't come down.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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Great leaden thing like an enormous sash-weight and as heavy —”
Vintage Murder Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1937
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