| 单词 | a pair of steelyards |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa pair of steelyards A balance consisting of a lever with unequal arms, which moves on a fulcrum; the article to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm until equilibrium is produced, its place on this arm (which is notched or graduated) showing the weight: = Roman balance n. at Roman n.1 and adj.1 Compounds 4. Also plural and a pair of steelyards. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > steelyard statera?a1560 pundler1575 Roman balance1585 Roman beam1611 stelleer1611 Venice beam1611 steelyard1639 bismar1701 Roman steelyard1730 staff-bismara1733 weigh-beam1804 1639 Act in Arch. Maryland (1883) I. 79 No more shall be demanded for sealing of a pair of Steeleyards..then the fee..for sealing of a measure. 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 16 It must be weighed..at the most just..beam the State hath,..not at every Souldiers petty Stilliards. a1703 R. Hooke Lect. Navigation & Astron. in Posthumous Wks. (1705) 565 If on a Stilyard a weight of thirty Pound be hung at thirty times the distance from the Center that a weight of nine hundred Pounds is hung, the Stilyard shall remain in æquilibrio. a1790 T. Warton Prol. Old Winch. Playhouse 23 Hither your steelyards, Butchers, bring, to weigh The pound of flesh, Anthonio's bond must pay! 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xi, in Wks. (1886) II. 322 He likewise weighed all the babies. There was hardly a child in town that had not hung beneath his steelyards. 1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 349 Railway luggage is weighed by means of a strong iron steelyard. < as lemmas |
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