half pound

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Noun1.half pound - 8 ounces avoirdupois
avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
lb, pound - 16 ounces avoirdupois; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds"
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A blanket, a knife, or a half pound of blue beads would purchase a steed, and at this rate many of the men bought horses for their individual use.
Therefore they were coveted all along the border, and since demand inevitably breeds supply, they were supplied at the risk of life and limb for exactly their weight in coined silver - seven and one half pounds' weight of rupees, or sixteen pounds sterling reckoning the rupee at par.
"I think, Watson, that you have put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you."
Lead shot makes for excellent stock weight material and I installed half pound of lead shot into two holes under the buttplate.
The one and a half pound iPads replace up to 25 pounds of paper flight manuals which pilots are required to carry whenever they fly.
The researchers observed a linear relationship between baseline vitamin D levels and weight loss, with close to an additional half pound of weight loss associated with each 1 nanogram per milliliter (ng/mL) increase in plasma 25-hydroxyvitamin D.
The latest Cadbury Dairy Milk wrappers feature a logo showing a glass and a half of milk being poured into a chocolate chunk, put milk first in a list of ingredients and explains that there is "The equivalent of three quarters of a pint of milk of fresh liquid milk in every half pound of milk chocolate".
The half pound (1-kg) satellite was launched into polar orbit on an Indian rocket on April 28th, along with an international cluster of other nanosatellites.
Page One: There is a flat rate of $22 to send an envelope weighing a half pound to Canada or Mexico.
You can expect to gain a half pound to a pound a week but remember every pregnancy is different.
They are genuinely compact and fold into a 3x3 3/4" package, that weighs a mere half pound. With typical Zeiss brightness, the 8x magnification will do for any job where weight or space make carrying a full size glass problematic.
Avery Weigh-Tronix has admitting disregarding the brief received from the Horseracing Regulatory Authority which has meant machines, rather than being programmed to round down to the nearest half pound, have been rounding up.
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