weighting

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Unless these were the hapless remains of merchants accused of short-weighting the customers, it seemed a bit unsanitary to be burying people in the marketplace.

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  1. The attachment to textile fabrics of substances which produce a spurious appearance of thickness and value: an adulteration frequently practised, and more common and carried much further on silk goods than on any others.
  2. In coal-mining, subsidence or other disturbance in a coal-mine due to “weight,” or pressure of the overlying mass of rock. A mine in which such subsidence is taking place is said to be “on the weight.” [Eng.]

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  • She felt his frustration, his profound sense of helplessness. —  Honorbound
  • Unless these were the hapless remains of merchants accused of short-weighting the customers, it seemed a bit unsanitary to be burying people in the marketplace. —  Sick Cycle Carousel
  • The lead weighting, of course, would carry them to the mud at the bottom of the Vosk. —  Guardsman Of Gor
  • Any poll which doesn't post the weighting is a fraud. —  Latest Articles
  • "-- who knew Arch or Todd," she said. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
 

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