Paper-weight

Quick meaning: Paper-weight is a noun meaning Archaic form of paperweight.

Meaning

Archaic form of paperweight.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• paper-weights

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