steelyard

Εννοια (Αγγλικός)

  1. A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
  2. A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.

Έννοιες

καντάρι

φορητή πλάστιγξ

Συνώνυμα

beam scale

lever scale

weighing scale

steelyard balance

weight beam

Roman steelyard

Roman beam

weighing unit

pair of scales

beam balance

spring scale

scale beam

stapel scale

steelyard-type balance

balance scale

Μεταφράσεις

Προφέρεται ως (IPA)
/ˈstiːljɑːɹd/
Ετυμολογία (Αγγλικός)

In summary

From steel + yard (“enclosed area, rod”). The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)). The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier Latin statera.

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