Crossword clues for steelyard
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Steelyard \Steel"yard\ (st[=e]l"y[aum]rd; colloq. st[i^]l"y[~e]rd; 277), 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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths. 2 A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
WordNet
n. a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length [syn: lever scale, beam scale]
Wikipedia
The Steelyard, from the Middle Low German Stalhof / Dutch Staalhof, was the main trading base ( kontor) of the Hanseatic League in London during 15th and 16th centuries.
Usage examples of "steelyard".
Sertorius in Italian Gaul are moving mountains to ship arms and armor and troops, and every little steelyard and foundry in Roman territory anywhere in the world is busier than a lone Sardinian capturing a convoy.
Bonaparte, By reckless riskings of his life and limb, Has turned the steelyard of our strength to-day Whilst I have idled here!
Coelius and Sertorius in Italian Gaul are moving mountains to ship arms and armor and troops, and every little steelyard and foundry in Roman territory anywhere in the world is busier than a lone Sardinian capturing a convoy.
Milco took a steelyard from the shelf of implements behind him and hung it from a ceiling hook on a long copper chain.
Milco took what Sharina had thought was a mixing bowl for wine from the shelf where the steelyard was kept.
He unhooked the first steelyard and replaced it with another whose counterweight arm was much longer than that for the pan holding the objects being weighed.
Milco took the silver from the hanging steelyard, added three strips of copper, and laid four iron wedges on top.
They had, by this time, drifted past the Steelyard and were converging on the Old Swan Stairs, just above London Bridge.
Beneath me passed a broad gray thoroughfare, heavy with traffic, then a block of flat-roofed garages, a narrow street, a slab of shingle, a curve of the Thames, a wharf and steelyard, another street.
This done, the poor wretch and his escort moved away to the Catherine Wheel, in the Steelyard, where a less kindly reception awaited him.
The favour shown by the Crown to the merchants of the Steelyard was especially annoying to the freemen of the city.
There is a fine drawing at Berlin by Holbein which is thought to be the original design for the triumphal arch erected by the merchants of the Steelyard on this occasion.
Greenwich, 13 March, 1555, the merchants of the Steelyard were thenceforth to be allowed to buy cloth in warehouses adjoining the Steelyard, without hindrance from the mayor.
One rather interesting machine was so devised that the cacao roasting drum was fitted with a sort of steelyard, and this, when the loss of weight due to roasting had reached a certain amount, swung over and rang a bell, indicating dramatically that the roasting was finished.
Easterling Steelyard, the quarters of the merchants of Allemagne, then traders in London.