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Answer for the clue "Scale ", 7 letters:
weigher
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Word definitions for weigher in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weigher \Weigh"er\, n. One who weighs; specifically, an officer whose duty it is to weigh commodities.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who weighs.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an official who weighs and records the weight
Usage examples of weigher.
Anubis was the jackal-headed god who conducted the dead in the Underworld to the Double Palace of Osiris, the Judger, the Weigher of Souls.
Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nutcrackers: thus did my dream find the world:- My dream, a bold sailor, half-ship, half-hurricane, silent as the butterfly, impatient as the falcon: how had it the patience and leisure to-day for world-weighing!
Why, then, do these measurers and weighers of the elements contend that earth can be raised to those aerial altitudes, and that water cannot, while they admit that water is lighter, and liker to ascend than earth?
Great were the weariness and annoyance of the old Inspector and the Weighers and Gaugers, whose slumbers were disturbed by the unmercifully lengthened tramp of my passing and returning footsteps.