Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
weigh-house .
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Examples
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The next morning he charged me to pick six hundred pounds of cotton and deliver it at the weighing-house at night, under penalty, for a failure, of one hundred lashes on my bare back with a rawhide.
Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson Charles Thompson
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When called from the field to the weighing-house I was kept waiting until all the other slaves had their cotton weighed.
Biography of a Slave Being the Experiences of Rev. Charles Thompson Charles Thompson
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The next morning he charged me to pick six hundred pounds of cotton and deliver it at the weighing-house at night, under penalty, for a failure, of one hundred lashes on my bare back with a rawhide.
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Laura sat at the open window, pale and anxious, straining her eyes towards the weighing-house and the paddock, the little bit of enclosed ground where the horses were saddled.
Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875
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The next morning he charged me to pick six hundred pounds of cotton and deliver it at the weighing-house at night, under penalty, for a failure, of one hundred lashes on my bare back with a rawhide.
Biography of a Slave Thompson, Charles, b. 1833 1875
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When called from the field to the weighing-house I was kept waiting until all the other slaves had their cotton weighed.
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When called from the field to the weighing-house I was kept waiting until all the other slaves had their cotton weighed.
Biography of a Slave Thompson, Charles, b. 1833 1875
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At the entrance of the lane leading down to the works at Botfield there stood a small square building, which was used as the weighing-house for the coal and lime fetched from the pits, and as the pay-office on the reckoning Saturday, which came once a fortnight.
Fern's Hollow Hesba Stretton 1871
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John was pushing in and out of the ring below, tumbling over small bookmen in his agitation, dashing from the ring to the weighing-house, and hanging about the small, pale-faced boy who was to ride the filly as anxiously as if the jockey had been a prime minister, and John a family man with half a dozen sons in need of government appointments.
Aurora Floyd. A Novel Mary Elizabeth 1863
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At Aix, Marseilles, Toulon, and in more than forty towns and market-villages, this is summarily abolished; at Aupt and at Luc nothing remains of the weighing-house but the four walls.
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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