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steelyard

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Noun

HYPHEN

steel=yard

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun steelyard has 1 sense

steelyard(n = noun.artifact) beam scale, lever scale - a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length;

is a kind of balance

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CIDE DICTIONARY

steelyard, 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]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

steelyard, n. a kind of balance with a short arm to take the item to be weighed and a long graduated arm along which a weight is moved until it balances.

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steelyard

Gravity

N gravity, gravitation, weight, heaviness, specific gravity, pondorosity, pressure, load, burden, burthen, ballast, counterpoise, lump of, mass of, weight of, lead, millstone, mountain, Ossa on Pelion, weighing, ponderation, trutination, weights, avoirdupois weight, troy weight, apothecaries' weight, grain, scruple, drachma, ounce, pound, lb, arroba, load, stone, hundredweight, cwt, ton, long ton, metric ton, quintal, carat, pennyweight, tod, gram, centigram, milligram, microgram, kilogram, nanogram, picogram, femtogram, attogram, balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge, spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance, postal scale, baby scale, statics, weighty, weighing, heavy as lead, ponderous, ponderable, lumpish, lumpy, cumbersome, burdensome, cumbrous, unwieldy, massive, incumbent, superincumbent.