steelyard
/steel-yahrd, stil-yerd/US // ˈstilˌyɑrd, ˈstɪl yərd //UK // (ˈstiːlˌjɑːd) //
秤砣,秤杆,秤锤,秤盘
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a portable balance with two unequal arms, the longer one having a movable counterpoise and the shorter one bearing a hook or the like for holding the object to be weighed.
Examples
Hardly a minute elapsed before the Jew was back again, carrying his precious steelyard with ostentatious care.
The steelyard was committed to the keeping of Ben Zoof, and the visitors prepared to quit the Hansa.
And, moaning and groaning, the miserable man was driven to make up the full weight as registered by his own steelyard.
It has a conical valve pressed with a spiral spring, of any desired force, estimated by a steelyard.
Holbein, however, met with a warm reception from the German merchants of the Steelyard, and painted portraits of many of them.
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