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Definition of Steelyards
1. steelyard [n] - See also: steelyard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steelyards
Literary usage of Steelyards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"This principle is sometimes applied in ascertaining the weight of a body too
heavy for the steelyards. The body is suspended immovably near the center of a ..."
2. An Introduction to Natural Philosophy: Designed as a Text-book, for the Use by Denison Olmsted (1854)
"This principle is sometimes applied in ascertaining the weight of a body too
heavy for the steelyards. The body is suspended immovably near the center of a ..."
3. The Elements of Statics and Dynamics by Sidney Luxton Loney (1891)
"The steelyards. 164. The Common, or Roman, Steelyard is a machine for weighing
bodies and consists of a rod, AB, movable about a fixed fulcrum at a point C. ..."
4. A Digest of the Law of Scotland: With Special Reference to the Office and by Hugh Barclay, Scotland (1855)
"... all weights, measures, steelyards, or other weighing machines in his or her
possession, or shall otherwise obstruct or hinder such examination, ..."
5. A Compendium of Natural Philosophy: Adapted to the Use of the General Reader by Denison Olmsted (1842)
"A pair of steelyards has usually two graduated sides for determining smaller or
greater weights. It will be seen that on the greater side, the weight is ..."
6. A Digest of the Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia by Philadelphia (Pa.), John Cole Lowber, Philadelphia, Philadelphia (Pa.). Councils, Clement S. Miller (1822)
"25 On selling liquor within the limits, 26 On selling with steelyards, or other
than regulated weights and measures, 27 On huckstering, 28 Wheelbarrows not ..."
7. In the Land of the Lion and Sun, Or, Modern Persia: Being Experiences of by Charles James Wills (1891)
"... of Persians—Shiraz wine—Early lamb—Weights: their variety—steelyards—Local
custom of weighing—Wetting grass— Game—-Wild animals—Buildings—Ornamental ..."
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