Tower poundn.

Forms: Also 1500s–1700s pound Tower.

Etymology: So called from the standard pound which was kept in the Tower of London.

A pound weight of 5400 grains (= 11¼ Troy ounces), which was the legal mint pound of England prior to the adoption of the Troy pound of 5760 grains in 1526.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > pound of specific substance or system

lead-pound13..

Tower pound1469

tron-pound1683

Easterling pound1821

1343 Close Roll 17 Edw. III. m. 4 d (P.R.O.) Vne liure de pois de la Tour de Loundres.]

1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 166 For coynage of every lb. of Tour weght of sylver..iiii s. vi d.

1526 Proclam. 5 Nov. (P.R.O.: Pat. Roll 18 Hen. VIII) iim. 2 dorso It is..determyned..that the said pounde Towre shalbe no more vsed nor occupied.

1789 W. Merrey Remarks Coinage Eng. 8 The silver penny was about twenty-two grains and a half of Troy-weight, but called a penny~weight Tower. The shilling was twelve of these pennies, and the pound Tower was twenty of these shillings.

1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) 94 This [silver] penny was the two hundred and fortieth part of the tower pound.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. App. o. 428 The Anglo-Saxon pound is believed to have been that known by the name of the Tower pound; the Norman was the Troy pound, heavier by three-quarters of an ounce than the former.

Derivatives

Tower weight n. weight expressed in terms of the Tower pound.

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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > a system or standard of weighing > specific systems or standards

troy weight1390

lying-weight1454

avoirdupoisc1485

Tower weight1545

tron weight1593

sterling weight1612

overweight1656

merchant weight1704

tron1801

sicca weight1833

1545 Rates Custome House sig. dv^v A pounde of Tower wayght wayeth of the Troy .xi. ounces .i. quarter.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 292 There hath been vsed from the beginning (in the Mint) both Troy and Tower weight, each of them containing twelue ounces in the pound weight, sauing that the Troy weight is heauier by sixteen penie weight vpon the pound weight: by which Troy weight the merchants bought their gold and siluer abroad, and by the same did deliuer it to the Kings mint, receiuing in counterpeaze but tower weight for Troy, which was the Princes Prerogatiue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tower pound
释义	Tower poundn. Forms: Also 1500s–1700s pound Tower. Etymology: So called from the standard pound which was kept in the Tower of London. A pound weight of 5400 grains (= 11¼ Troy ounces), which was the legal mint pound of England prior to the adoption of the Troy pound of 5760 grains in 1526. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > pound of specific substance or system lead-pound13.. Tower pound1469 tron-pound1683 Easterling pound1821 1343 Close Roll 17 Edw. III. m. 4 d (P.R.O.) Vne liure de pois de la Tour de Loundres.] 1469 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 166 For coynage of every lb. of Tour weght of sylver..iiii s. vi d. 1526 Proclam. 5 Nov. (P.R.O.: Pat. Roll 18 Hen. VIII) iim. 2 dorso It is..determyned..that the said pounde Towre shalbe no more vsed nor occupied. 1789 W. Merrey Remarks Coinage Eng. 8 The silver penny was about twenty-two grains and a half of Troy-weight, but called a penny~weight Tower. The shilling was twelve of these pennies, and the pound Tower was twenty of these shillings. 1821 J. Q. Adams in C. Davies Metr. Syst. (1871) 94 This [silver] penny was the two hundred and fortieth part of the tower pound. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. App. o. 428 The Anglo-Saxon pound is believed to have been that known by the name of the Tower pound; the Norman was the Troy pound, heavier by three-quarters of an ounce than the former. Derivatives Tower weight n. weight expressed in terms of the Tower pound. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > a system or standard of weighing > specific systems or standards troy weight1390 lying-weight1454 avoirdupoisc1485 Tower weight1545 tron weight1593 sterling weight1612 overweight1656 merchant weight1704 tron1801 sicca weight1833 1545 Rates Custome House sig. dv^v A pounde of Tower wayght wayeth of the Troy .xi. ounces .i. quarter. 1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 292 There hath been vsed from the beginning (in the Mint) both Troy and Tower weight, each of them containing twelue ounces in the pound weight, sauing that the Troy weight is heauier by sixteen penie weight vpon the pound weight: by which Troy weight the merchants bought their gold and siluer abroad, and by the same did deliuer it to the Kings mint, receiuing in counterpeaze but tower weight for Troy, which was the Princes Prerogatiue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1469
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