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Definition of Paperweight
1. Noun. A weight used to hold down a stack of papers.
Definition of Paperweight
1. n. See under Paper,
Definition of Paperweight
1. Noun. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty (and now, highly collectable) object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away. ¹
2. Noun. Any object for this purpose. ¹
3. Noun. (slang) An otherwise useless piece of equipment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paperweight
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paperweight
Literary usage of Paperweight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Gas Institute by American Gas Institute (1914)
"Reproduction of a paperweight designed to keep prevention constantly before
employees. This reminder has been widely distributed around shops and plants. ..."
2. Argosy All-story Weekly edited by Frank Andrew Munsey (1898)
"Then his eyes fell upon the paperweight in ... With that paperweight. Put it down !
Du it, man, do as I tell you !" He sprang up and seized the article from ..."
3. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"But it was got through in the end, and all Lavinia was swept away except a glass
paperweight with perishable annuals blooming inside it. ..."
4. The Copper Handbook by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Harvey Weed (1904)
"And as the minerals are designed they afford an interesting study. This remarkable
paperweight is round, 34 inches in diameter, and weighs ID ounces. ..."
5. Tʻoung pao by Demiéville, Paul, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Henri Cordier, Paul Pelliot, Edouard Chavannes, Gustaaf Schlegel (1893)
"Now these Chinese characters have not in the least the meaning of a paperweight ,
but would mean "to calculate (soan) by means of the eight diagrams" (koa). ..."
6. Mines Register: Successor to the Mines Handbook and the Copper Handbook edited by Horace Jared Stevens, Walter Garfield Neale, Lenox Hawes Rand, Edward Barney Sturgis, Joseph Zimmerman (1904)
"This remarkable paperweight is round, 84 inches in diameter, and weighs 10 ounces.
(Illustration about half si;-,». ) The Financial Bulletin, Denver, ..."
7. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1877)
"Clearly to call the thing a paperweight is not to give a name descriptive of real
character, but a nickname suggested by the paltry single use we put it to. ..."
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