"sash weight" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a heavy metal weight used to counterbalance a window sash so it can easily be opened and closed. Example: The window installer had to replace the sash weights in the old Victorian house to ensure the windows would function properly.
The cord length is correct if the sash weight hits the top of the channel when the sash is fully down.
Like helpless accessories, we watch with appalled fascination as they stockpile enough murderous paraphernalia for a dozen episodes of "Poirot": poisons, sleeping powders, chloroform, picture wire, rubber gloves and a heavy sash weight.
NOW that the landmark Plaza Hotel is going condo, Ralph Lauren has bought every shingle, sash weight, suite, room, closet and hallway from the rooftop down to the 11th floor and will move the whole shebang intact to a new home atop the former Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus Circle.
America was nearing the end of the "Roaring Twenties" boom in this year, but some of its glitter clung on, in murder cases such as that of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, charged with the "sash weight" murder of Snyder's husband.
The bomb was an immeasurably cruel device, most likely dynamite tied to iron sash weights that acted as shrapnel.
The weapons included spoons ground razor‐sharp and lashed to mop handles, clubs made from the communion rail in the prison chapel, sash weights, chains and fire bombs made with insecticide.
On Sept. 16, 1920, as lunchtime crowds filled the intersection of Wall and Broad Streets, 100 pounds of TNT on a horse-drawn wagon exploded outside the J. P. Morgan & Company offices, sending fragmented lead sash weights flying as shrapnel.
The Wall Street facade was pitted in 40 or 50 places by the cut-up sash weights and other metal intended to kill and maim; it is still possible to see the deadly marks visible in the marble.
The investigation ultimately confirmed that a bomb made with TNT and packed with iron window sash weights had caused the carnage and that it had been detonated by a timer after the perpetrators left the scene.
At noon, a horse and buggy, laden with 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of cast-iron sash weights for shrapnel, pulled up in front of 23 Wall Street, the offices of J. P. Morgan, the richest, most powerful, most ruthless investment banker of his time.
Although detectives visited every sash-weight manufacturer and dealer in the United States, as well as 500 stables in towns along the Atlantic coast, they had no success in finding the perpetrators.
