pennyweight in English
noun
1
a unit of weight, 24 grains or one twentieth of an ounce troy.
Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight , and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.
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