单词 | weigh-balk |
释义 | > as lemmasweigh-balk weigh-balk n. northern and Scottish the beam of a pair of scales or steelyard; plural scales. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance > beam of a balance balk1399 beam1420 weigh-balkc1485 scale-beam1723 balance-yard1810 balance-beam1813 the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus > a balance > scales weighc825 weightsa1300 balance1388 weigh-scalea1400 weighing-scalesc1450 scales1480 weigh-balk1824 c1485 Inventory in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 371 j weybalke cum skales. 1593–4 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1889) II. 380 Quhat~sumever parson..in tym cuming borrow the use of thair wey balk to wey irone or wther geir. 1608 in Cochran-Patrick Early Rec. Mining Scot. (1878) 150 Ane grit weybak with the balance brodis thereto for weying the ore. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet III. x. 294 To see a' ane's warldly substance capering in the air in a pair of weigh-bauks, now up, now down. < as lemmas |
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