The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weighing \Weigh"ing\, a. & n. from Weigh, v.
Weighing cage, a cage in which small living animals may be conveniently weighed.
Weighing house. See Weigh-house.
Weighing machine, any large machine or apparatus for weighing; especially, platform scales arranged for weighing heavy bodies, as loaded wagons.
Wiktionary
n. a mechanical device, often coin-operated, for determining the weight of an object or person
WordNet
n. a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass [syn: scale]
Usage examples of "weighing machine".
Through the open door of the other could be seen an official weighing machine, borrowed from an obliging Midlands course.
Outside the shoe store was a penny weighing machine, one of those that advertises ‘.
Outside the shoe store was a penny weighing machine, one of those that advertises 'YOUR WATE AND FATE.
I said, having selected twelve perfect plums for her before placing them on the weighing machine.
Jones stared at the fortune card that had emerged from the weighing machine in response to her husband’.
Jones stared at the fortune card that had emerged from the weighing machine in response to her husband's penny.
He stopped when he saw that Betty had paused at a penny weighing machine.
She leaned against a penny weighing machine wondering what was the matter with her.
In the sunlight moray eel was drying, and on the cobblestones a man in a shirt either dark-blue with light-blue patches or vice versa was scrubbing the big wooden fish-weighing machine.
Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped.
Jones stared at the fortune card that had emerged from the weighing machine in response to her husbands penny.