makeweightsomeone or something that is only added to make something completeRumour also has it that John O'Shea has been repeatedly offered as a makeweight in recent deals. It was first published in English in a translation by Mary Meeke, packaged in 1807 by the Minerva Press both as a single volume and as a makeweight in another work translated by Meeke (see ‘Notes ' field in Entry listed above). Meanwhile, Sommeil has been little more than a makeweight for the last two seasons and was destined to move on this summer anyhow. something put on scales to make up the required weight