Usually means: Weight system based on pounds.
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  1. avoirdupois: Merriam-Webster
  2. avoirdupois: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avoirdupois: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avoirdupois: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avoirdupois: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avoirdupois, avoirdupois: Wordnik
  7. avoirdupois: Wiktionary
  8. avoirdupois: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. avoirdupois: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. avoirdupois: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. avoirdupois: Dictionary.com
  12. avoirdupois: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Avoirdupois: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Avoirdupois: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. avoirdupois: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. avoirdupois: Rhymezone
  17. Avoirdupois: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. avoirdupois: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Avoirdupois: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. avoirdupois: FreeDictionary.org
  21. avoirdupois: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. avoirdupois: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. avoirdupois: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. avoirdupois: Merriam-Webster

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  1. avoirdupois: Encyclopedia

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  1. avoirdupois: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (avoirdupois)

noun:  (historical) The official system of weights used in the UK between 1856 and 1963. It had been the customary system in London since 1300.
noun:  (historical) The official system of weights used in the USA between 1866 and 1959.
noun:  (chiefly humorous) Weight; heaviness.
noun:  (obsolete) Merchandise.

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