paper-weight

plural paper-weights

1. archaicArchaic form of paperweight.

   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.

   1956, Isabella Bayne, chapter I, in Cruel as the Grave, London: Jarrolds Publishers (London) Ltd, page 8

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   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.

   1895–1897, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Wreckage”, in The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, published 1898, →OCLC, book II (The Earth under the Martians), page 295

   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.

   1909, Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Finer Details”, in The Man in Lower Ten, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 359