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dead weight 1. the difference between the loaded and the unloaded weights of a ship 2. another name for dead load 3. (in shipping) freight chargeable by weight rather than by bulk How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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As he was thus speaking, he had risen from bed with great difficulty, holding to my shoulder with a grip that almost made me cry out, and moving his legs like so much dead weight. Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of plumpness under which he has literally staggered. Before I could stoop for it there was a dead weight on my left arm, and Squire Rattray was over the table at a bound, with his arms jostling mine beneath Eva Denison's senseless form. |
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