catchweight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catchweights
Senses: examples: text: There was an especially good entry, thirty-nine horses, representing twenty-two regiments, being entered in the Light Weight race, which was for horses five years old and upwards, the property of oflicers on full or half pay of the Regular Army, that had not won a race under the recognised rules of steeplechasing in any country, point-to-point races excepted; while eighteen faced the starter in the Welter race, in which the conditions were the same, excepting that the catchweight was 13 st. 7 lb.
ref: 1908, Cavalry Journal - Volume 3, page 266:
text: The fatal difference 'twixt his weight and mine, A second battle should he do this day : Nay, though outmatched I be, let but my mistress Give me the word: instant I'll take him on Here — now — at catchweight.
ref: 1911, Archibald Henderson, George Bernard Shaw His Life and Works, page 76:
text: He was sent in at catchweights against George Chip before his left eye was healed from an old cut.
ref: 1984, Lesley Choyce, The Cape Breton Collection, page 84:
text: The distance was three and threequarter miles, and the conditions briefly—catchweight over 13 stone, all horses to be the property of, and ridden by, an M.P., and no horse to have previously won a steeplechase.
ref: 2013, Alfred E. Pease, Hunting Reminiscences, →ISBN:
text: On May 29, it was announced that the two men had signed to fight at a catchweight of 152 pounds.
ref: 2014, Thomas Hauser, Thomas Hauser on Boxing: Another Year Inside the Sweet Science, →ISBN:
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glosses: A weight category other than the standard weight categories: either an agreed-upon weight range or an agreement to allow any weight.
examples: text: Catchweights over 300 pounds would be about the correctest figure to give for ladies of the royal family ; and the women-folk generally are big-faced and big-bodied, though not especially large-limbed.
ref: 1892, C. R. Sail, Farthest East, and South and West:
text: A number of trial fillings and catchweights may be necessary to obtain the desired degree of accuracy.
ref: 1930, John Quayle Cannon, Standards and Specifications for Nonmetallic Minerals and Their Products:
text: For example, the catchweights of ham and pork loins can vary to a certain degree (Morris 2000).
ref: 2006, Matthias Lütke Entrup, Advanced Planning in Fresh Food Industries, →ISBN:
text: Under these conditions catchweights of samples can be used, so long as they are within reasonable limits (say ±5% relative).
ref: 2012, Michael Thompson, Handbook of Inductively Coupled Plasma Spectrometry, →ISBN:
glosses: The weight of an item that is not set to a standard, but which varies around an approximate value.
examples: text: At the end of two hours, the first seventeen anglers up the line from me had taken a total of only three legal fish, which suggested I wasn't ... Carr told me the quantitative specialist wins an occasional match with the biggest total catchweight.
ref: 1977, Robert G. Deindorfer, The incompleat angler: fishing Izaak Walton's favorite rivers, page 58:
text: Catchweight seems to me to be a far more reasonable measure of impact than days at sea, even though the general impact of high levels of human activity should also be brought into the calculations.
ref: 2003, Australia. Parliament House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Senate, page 9684:
text: In 2002/2003, the total catchweight reported by sport fishers was 235,308 kg (Wright 2008) with the largest landings in Malindi (46%) and Watamu (37%).
ref: 2009, Jan C. Hoorweg, Barasa Wangila, A. Allan Degen, Artisanal Fishers on the Kenyan Coast, →ISBN:
glosses: The weight of all the fish caught.