( n. )
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
( n. )
Formerly an allowance of two pounds in every three hundred weight after the tare and tret are subtracted; now used only in a general sense, of small deductions from the original weight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary. Пересмотренный полный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012