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Probably didn't survive out of Middle English Jewle V (talk) 16:18, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- Which sense? Based on how you phrase it I assume you mean the measurement, but our Webster link marks the "claw" sense as obsolete as well, and it seems rather odd to have a soft c when the original Latin word ended in -us. I'm skeptical of both words now, ... I found a book that mentions that the word exists, though to be honest I dont really know what Im looking at. Also, to anyone else doing a search for the measurement, a lot of hits for ounce will show up as unce just due to scanning errors .... I found plenty while looking for the claw sense but no actual uses of either sense (though I didnt search very hard for the measurement). —Soap— 20:43, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- Claw sense is a hapax in the OED. The ounce sense is easy to cite from EEBO, I've cited it and changed it to an altform entry (I don't think it needs special ety info). —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 22:10, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
- RFV resolved keeping ounce deleting claw Denazz (talk) 23:09, 30 December 2023 (UTC)