weighman

In return for their deposits the nomads were given receipts issued by Nur Muhammad that they presented to Nur Muhammad's subcontracted broker and weighman in Peshawar, Jit Mall and his brother, respectively, who countersigned the receipts.

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Ethel Mellor was the daughter of a well-to-do check-weighman.

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As a weighman of pounds and ounces he only wanted to show the prospect that he was honest.

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If you exaggerate the importance of the things you have learned, he almost surely will judge you to be an unfair weighman of yourself.

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"If you please, Mr. Cartwright," said Edstrom, "we'd like your decision, so as to have the check-weighman start in the morning."

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

"Mr. Peters," he said, to the tipple-boss, "I've come to act as check-weighman."

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

But he had known some from the other mine -- Old Rafferty for one, and Mary Burke's father for another, and at least one of the members of his check-weighman group -- Zamierowski.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

If he did the talking, it would look as if the check-weighman had been the source of the movement, and was engaged in making a good paying job for himself.

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

They must run this check-weighman affair for themselves!

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923

"We'll have a check-weighman, and we'll get what we earn!"

King Coal : a Novel Upton Sinclair 1923