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steelyard |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Steelyard \Steel"yard\, 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: steelyard n : a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length [syn: {beam scale}]
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