steelyard, lever scale, beam scale
(noun) a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length
Source: WordNet® 3.1
steelyard (plural steelyards)
A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
Source: Wiktionary
Steel"yard, n. Etym: [So named from a place in London called the Steelyard, which was a yard in which steel was sold.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
