The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trone stone
Trone \Trone\, Trones \Trones\, n. [LL. trona, fr. L. trutina a balance; cf. Gr. ?.]
A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.]
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A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.]
Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.
Wiktionary
trone stone
n. A weight formerly used in Scotland, approximately twenty pounds.