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▪ I. tron, trone, n. Sc. and north. dial.|trɒn|, |tron|
Also 6 tronne, throne, troyne, 7, 9 troan.
[ME. a. OF. trone (Godef.):—L. trulina, a. Gr. τρυτάνη balance, pair of scales.]
1. (Chiefly Sc.) A weighing machine; a pair of scales or other machine for weighing merchandise; a public weighing apparatus in a city or (burgh) town; also called ‘the king's trone’. Now Hist.
[c1290Fleta ii. xii. §15 Quod fideliter colligant..ulnas, tronas, stateras, et pondera cujuslibet generis, tam pro pane quam pro aliis rebus venalibus provisa et habita. 1365Stat. David II, c. 39 in Acts Parlt. Scot. (1844) I. 139/1 Extitit ordinatum, quod sit trona ad lanas ponderandas in burgis Regiis, per singulos portus Regni.] 1477in Charters &c. Edinb. (1871) 141 Sic like gudis that suld be weyit to be vsit at the Ouer Bow, and a trone set thare. a1500in Arnolde's Chron. (1811) 101 The marchaunt may make his wolle to be weyen at the kyngis trone yf he will. 1609Skene Reg. Maj., Stat. David II 44 (see 1365 above) The Chalmerlane sall cause..mak ane Trone for weying of woll in all the Kings burghis. 1742in J. Paterson Hist. Regality Musselburgh (1857) 82 Repair the cross and the trone in the town of Musselburgh. 1824G. Chalmers Caledonia III. vi. viii. 654 The trone for weighing goods being established at the bottom of the tower, the Church obtained the name of the Trone Church. a1850J. Gray Arithm. (ed. 100) 12 The Tron Pound kept at Edinburgh is equal to 9622·67 Troy Grains; it varies, however, in different places and for different purposes. 1886Masson Edinb. Sk. 29 Markets..each having its own ‘tron’ or weighing apparatus.
b. The post of this was used as a pillory, or place of public exposure and punishment of offenders.
1449Sc. Acts Jas. II, c. 9 (1814) II. 36/1 And fra þai [beggars] haf not to lefe aponne þat þar eris be nalyt to þe trone or to ane vthir tre and cuttit of and bannyst þe cuntre. 1515Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1869) I. 156 He was adiugeit to be had to the trone and thair strikkin throw the hand and banist this towne. 1650Acts Sederunt 6 Feb. (1790) 69 They ordain the said John Rob to be sett upon the Trone with a paper upon his head, bearing thir words; (This John Rob is sett heir for being an false informer of witnesses), and ordaines his lugg to be nailed to the Trone be the spaice of ane hour. 1731Gentl. Mag. Mar. 123/2 He shall have his Lugs tacked to the muckle Trone with a Nail of twal a Penny.
c. Contextually, The place where the tron was set up; a market-place, market; in quot. 1821 fig.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxii. 24 At your hie Croce, quhair gold and silk Sould be, thair is bot crudis and milk; And at ȝour Trone bot cokill and wilk. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 121 The Englismen seing no resistance, hurlled..cannounes up the calsay to the Butter-throne. 1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. i. ii, I'll..win the vogue at market, tron, or fair, For halesome, clean, cheap, and sufficient ware. 1821Galt Ann. Parish xxxvii, Irville..is an abundant trone for widows and other single women. 1891H. Haliburton Ochil Idylls 65 At the very trons in touns It [snow]'s knee-deep lyin.
d. Short for tron weight: see 3.
1801Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 429, 1200 bundles of hay, of 4 pounds weight each..is..327 stone Trone on the Scotch acre.
2. (pl.) north. dial. A weighing-machine; a pair of scales, a steelyard or spring balance.
1825Brockett N.C. Words, Trones, a steel yard. 1863Mrs. Toogood Yorksh. Dial. (MS.), Go and borrow the trones to weigh the hay.
3. attrib. tronman (trone-man): see quot. 1808–25; tron(e-pound, the pound of tron weight, varying locally from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois; so tron(e-stone (see quots.); tron(e weight, the standard of weight used at the tron.
1808–25Jamieson, *Trone-men, the name given to those who carry off the soot sweeped from chimneys, because they had their station at the Trone, Edinburgh. 1896Smeaton Ramsay vii. 182 Tronmen with their bags of soot.
1683Repr. Advantages Manuf. Woollen-cloath 4 Wooll (not worth 8 sh. Scots the *Trone-pound).
1565Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 375 Fourtie thowsand *troyne stane wecht. 1795Hutton Math. Dict., Trone-Stone, in Scotland, according to Sir John Skene, contains 19½ pounds. 1882Ogilvie (Annandale) s.v. Trone, The later tron stone..contained 16 tron pounds, the tron pound being equivalent to 1·3747 lbs. avoirdupois.
1593Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 815/1 Cum potestate crucem foralem cum lie trone et *trone-wechtis habendi. 1618Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 587/2 That Weght called of old the Trone weght to be allvtterlie abolisched. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 346 Cheese..sold by tron weight, having twenty-one ounces to the lb. 1812Sir J. Sinclair Syst. Husb. Scot. i. 58, 150 to 200 stone of hay, trone weight, is carried by each two-horse cart, to..Perth and Dundee.
Hence tron (trone) v., trans. to weigh at the tron.
1609Skene Reg. Maj. i. 152 Tronars sould be challenged, that they keip not their office in troning..of wooll, bot they trone the samine to some men, and not to others. 1861Riley Liber Albus 124 That no foreign merchant or other shall sell or buy any wares that ought to be weighed or troned, except by our own beam or tron.
▪ II. tron
obs. f. throne; pa. tense of trine v.2 Obs. |