rare. A weight of a thousand pounds.
1538. Elyot, Milliarius, a, um, of a thousande weight.
1552. Huloet, Thousande weyght, millepondium.
1559. W. Cunningham, Cosmogr. Glasse, 176. Sulphure is there so plentifull that you may for the 4. part of a ducate, haue a thousande weight.
1667. Primatt, City & C. Build., 99. A thousand weight of Lead taken up in Pipes, Gutters, and in Ridges.
1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2064/4. 40 thousand weight of Powder.
1768. Chron., in Ann. Reg., 113/2. The Sherborne waggon was stopped by the populace, and about a thousand weight of butter taken away.
