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English

Noun

Image:19th-century steelyard.png|thumb|right|A 19th-century steelyard.

  1. A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
  2. A place where steel (and possible other metals as well) is stored and sold.

io:steelyard te:steelyard vi:steelyard

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Steelyard \Steel"yard\ (st[=e]l"y[aum]rd; colloq.
st[i^]l"y[~e]rd; 277), n. [So named from a place in London
called the Steelyard, which was a yard in which steel was
sold.]
A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is
suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a
fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the
longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm
(which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a
Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form,
steelyards.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet steelyard
n : a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of
unequal length [syn: lever scale, beam scale]
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