Wiktionary
n. (label en curling) The force (weight) of delivering a stone required for it to come to rest in the house (to draw).
Usage examples of "draw weight".
The bow's draw weight was eighty pounds, but with the pulleys he only had to exert that much effort at the middle of the draw.
Their own bows were short and puny in comparison and they looked askance at this six-foot weapon, dubiously tried the massive draw weight and shook their heads.
I have two bows, one a compound bow set at a sixty-pound draw weight, meaning that my arms must be able to pull that hard.
As a youth you get a hunting bow, about a third the draw weight of this one.
It's a cast-aluminum crossbow, brass slides, automatic safety catch, one-seventy-five draw weight, about twelve pounds, and with an accuracy of thirty to thirty-five feet.