weigher

IPA: wˈeɪɝ

Examples of "weigher" in Sentences

"Oh, you don't need to show it to me," Shorty said, as they walked to the weigher.
Shorty carried the sack and the paper across the room and handed them to the weigher, who sat behind a large pair of gold-scales.
"Weigh in!" he cried, tossing his sack to the weigher, who transferred to it four hundred dollars from the sacks of the two losers.
He scribbled the amount on a pad, and the weigher at the bar balanced fifty dollars 'worth of dust in the gold-scales and poured it into Burning Daylight's sack.
The "high card" turned, and he handed back my sack, called for a "tab," and drew me over to the scales, where the weigher nonchalantly cashed him out fifty dollars in dust.
"Had he combined his hedonism with a pinch more wisdom, had he poured slightly less into his gullet and slightly more into his soul, he might have made it, " says the weigher of hearts.
This drifter and grifter — "a rail-thin man in a multicolored pastel ensemble and a straw boater" is how Mr. Kelly describes him at one point — had been a gold-weigher in Nome, a smuggler of Chinese immigrants on the Seattle waterfront and a "manufacturer of fire extinguishers" before latching on to his meal ticket, Jack Dempsey.