jack-weight

A heavy shot which struck her was begged by a friend, who, in a recent letter, makes a jocular allusion to it, and says that it is still doing service in the kitchen as a jack-weight.

The Life of Admiral Viscount Exmouth Osler, Edward, 1798-1863 1854

"Sure you tould me, ma'am, that if they didn't open their mouths they were good, and I'll be on my book oath them oysters never opened their mouths since I had them, for I laid them on a coolflag in the kitchen and put the jack-weight over them."

Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832