What is "sash weight"

Usage examples of "sash weight".

I believed Elaine had been killed with a sash weight that had been tucked back in the window frame and nailed into place.

I've often thought of taking one of my thin books (because people won't pay much for one) and adding a sash weight to it just to give someone the bulk he needs to pay seven or eight dollars for the thing, which is what I need to really eat and stuff.

When Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray killed Albert Snyder, she told the police that a black-bearded giant of a man had come to the bedside, bent over her husband and bashed in his skull with sash weight —.

When Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray killed Albert Snyder, she told the police that a black-bearded giant of a man had come to the bedside, bent over her husband and bashed in his skull with sash weight or was it a hammer?

He could, almost, imagine himself outside the Snyder bedroom in Queens Village, getting steadily more soused as he waited for Albert to go to sleep so that then he could sneak in there and brain him with the sash weight in his sweaty hand.