Meaning of paper-weight | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of paperweight.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“I followed them to my study, and found lying on my writing-table still, with the selenite paper-weight upon it, the sheet of work I had left on the afternoon of the opening of the cylinder.”

“Richey had picked up a paper-weight and was tossing it from hand to hand; when it slipped and fell to the floor, a startled shudder passed through the room.”

“Instead he played with his paper-weights; he had quite a collection of Victorian ones and others, a few specimens of which he kept out on his desk.”

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