Prior to the commencement of the Union (and at the time) the workmen's choice of their weighman was merely nominal.
This system was enforced even after the Act of 1861, and in such a glaring manner, that the master's weighman was paid a commission upon every light tub he found.
It has to be carefully weighed first, and the weighman gets a little from the vendor as his perquisite, which the factory takes from him at the market rate.
Some are filling sacks full of the cleaned seed, and hauling them off to the weighman and his clerk.
After a while Jerry asked what it was Hal and Olson had planned; and Hal explained that he wanted to make a test of the company's attitude toward the check-weighman law.
So the would-be check-weighman came out and sat on the steps to wait.
Hal decided that it would be safe to trust this man, and told him of his check-weighman plan.
Just when will you be prepared to let the check-weighman begin work, Mr. Cartwright?
It's for your protection as well as ours that a check-weighman is needed.
Under the state law, the miner had a right to demand a check-weighman to protect his interest at the scales, paying this check-weighman's wages out of his own earnings.
He did not stop to think that Mary's interest in the check-weighman movement might be conditioned in part by a desire to see more of him; still less did it occur to him that he might be glad for a pretext to see Mary.
Mike was exultant, for several new men had come up to him and offered to join the check-weighman movement.
Hal made his way to the boarding-house, and when he had finished his supper, he set out from place to place in the camp, telling the men about the check-weighman plan and explaining that it was a legal right they were demanding.
He would use that check-weighman story as a "follow-up" for the next day, to keep the subject of North Valley alive.
This is where the check-weighman belongs, Mr. Peters.
As a weighman of pounds and ounces he only wanted to show the prospect that he was honest.
If you exaggerate the importance of the things you have learned, he almost surely will judge you to be an unfair weighman of yourself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weighman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
