steelyard
IPA: stˈiɫjɑrd
noun
- A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
- A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
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Examples of "steelyard" in Sentences
- She Yüeh, upon hearing this, dropped the steelyard, and selected
- A steelyard is also known as a Roman steelyard, or Roman balance.
- Then raising the steelyard, “Which is the one tael mark?” she asked.
- The weights were very ingeniously made; the steelyard system was adopted.
- “But why FOUR pounds?” she objected as she weighed the sugar on a steelyard.
- My name comes from STEELYARD which was originally a type of weighing machine.
- To tell the truth, it was a delicate job, for the steelyard was a clumsy instrument, though, like the sceptical guard's language, the best we had.
- Five days a week he works in steelyard to support an extended family of five: his brother, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's daughter and his girlfriend's daughter's infant son.
- But his trusses of hay were always six pounds short, and if ever anybody brought a sample truss to steelyard, he had got a little dog, just seven pounds weight, who slipped into the core of it, being just a good hay-color.
- With the help of the girls he used to fasten a fat little thing, about twelve months old, in the bend at the middle of the handle, and there (like a ham on the steelyard) hung this baby and enjoyed seesaw, and laughed at its own utility.
- It is needless to say that a scale would not show this loss; for the weight destined to weight the object would have lost exactly as much as the object itself; but a spring steelyard for example, the tension of which was independent of the attraction, would have given a just estimate of this loss.
- Hitherto the weighing machines in common use have either been designed with some kind of steelyard apparatus, upon which weights could be moved to different distances from a fixed fulcrum, or springs have been so applied as to be compressed to different degrees by different weights put upon the scale pan, or table, of the machine.