Anglo-Indian. [f. WEIGH v.1 + -MENT, after measurement.] The action of weighing (commodities).
1878. J. Inglis, Sport & Work, xii. 135. They … cheat in the weighments and measurements.
1889. V. Ball, trans. Tavernier’s Trav., II. 447. It may be fairly attributed to difference in the accuracy of the methods of weighment employed by Tavernier and Schrauf respectively.
1903. C. Bald, Indian Tea, xiv. (1917), 215. A careful examination of leaf, load by load, before weighment.
1906. J. A. Elliott, in Padri Elliott of Faizabad, 220. The Deputy Opium Agent … let him set up a shop in the opium-camp during the two months that the weighments were on.
