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steelyard

NOUN
  1. a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length

How To Use steelyard In A Sentence

  • Weigh this ring in the small steelyard.
  • These patents were for a steelyard, a candlestick, the anglet, a mason's hoist for bricks and mortar, and a balance (scale).
  • In steelyard hook alley, golden shuttle mother - in - law should push first.
  • Marse Adam pull out a big flat black pocket-book and gived me a shinplaster, and say: 'Jesse, ever time your basket h'ist de beam of de steelyards to 100, you gits a shinplaster.' Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4
  • The figurine could have been cast from a clay mould made with a bronze fitting of a jug handle or a steelyard weight.
  • Dr Henig has suggested that the figurine could have been cast from a clay mould made with a bronze fitting of a jug handle or a steelyard weight.
  • The patented invention for which he is best known, and which was the basis for his success as a manufacturer, was for the steelyard (a weighing device), which bears his name.
  • In steelyard hook alley, golden shuttle mother - in - law should push first.
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