Sir Edward was the first to perceive that long, easy convex water lines, with full sections, gave buoyancy at every point, were more easily propelled, and had largedeadweight and measurement capacity.
An iron steamer is but a rectangular girder or tank with the ends sharpened, the co-efficient of fineness varying from 62 to 78 degrees, according to the speed or deadweight capacity required.
We do not go into the byways and hedges to pick up drawing-room tatterdemalions who bring nothing with them and are simply so much deadweight on the rest, occupying so much valuable space and consuming so much vital energy.
The remainder were freighters, averaging about 5,000 deadweight tons each.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deadweight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
