catchweight

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf Without any weight restrictions; without being handicapped.

   “They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks.”

2. sıfat Without any weight restrictions; having no handicap.

   “There were also races for gentlemen-riders, in whch all the best performers of the day took part. Lord Glamis, afterwards Earl of Strathmore, rode his maiden race there—a catchweight match with Sir Watkin Wynn, a rare bit of fun got up by the officers of the 1st Life Guards.”

3. sıfat Having no standard weight, but rather having weight determined when packaged for sale or shipping.

   “It is regular practice to furnish wire in catchweight coils.”

4. isim A weight category other than the standard weight categories: either an agreed-upon weight range or an agreement to allow any weight.

   “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.”

5. isim The weight of an item that is not set to a standard, but which varies around an approximate value.

   “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.”

6. isim The weight of all the fish caught.

   “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.”