steelyard

English

Alternative forms

• stilliard, stilyard

Etymology

steel +‎ yard (“enclosed area, rod”).

The sense of “place” is a calque of Dutch staalhof or Middle Low German Stalhof (Modern Dutch staal (“steel”) + hof (“court, yard”)).

The sense of “balance” is presumably from the sense of “place”, originally “steelyard beam”, mixed with additional sense of “rod” (hence “rod for weighing steel”), replacing earlier Latin statera.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈstiːljɑːɹd/, /ˈstiːljɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈstiːljɑːd/, /ˈstiːljəd/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /ˈstɪljəɹd/

Noun

A 19th-century steelyard.

steelyard (plural steelyards)

1. A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
2. A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.

Translations

steelyard balance

• Albanian: kandar (sq) m
• Arabic: قَبَّان m (qabbān), قَرَسْطُون m (qarasṭūn)
• Armenian: բեզմեն (hy) (bezmen)
• Azerbaijani: qapan
• Basque: erromatar balantza, erromana
• Belarusian: ка́нтар m (kántar)
• Breton: krog-pouez m
• Bulgarian: канта́р (bg) m (kantár), ри́мски канта́р m (rímski kantár)
• Catalan: romana (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 秤仔 (chhìn-á)

  Mandarin: 桿秤／杆秤 (zh) (gǎnchèng)

• Czech: přezmen m
• Dalmatian: stataira f
• Danish: bismervægt c
• Dutch: unster (nl) f
• Finnish: käsipuntari
• French: romaine (fr) f
• German: Laufgewichtswaage (de) f, römische Schnellwaage f
• Greenlandic: bismeri
• Italian: stadera (it) f
• Japanese: 竿秤 (saobakari)
• Kazakh: безбен (bezben)
• Macedonian: кантар m (kantar)
• Manchu: ᡩᡝᠩᠰᡝ (dengse)
• Mongolian: дэнс (mn) (dens)
• Old English: wǣgpundern n
• Ottoman Turkish: قنطار (kantar), قپان (kapan)
• Persian: قپان (fa) (qapân)
• Polish: bezmian m, przezmian m
• Russian: безме́н (ru) m (bezmén), ка́нта́р (ru) m (kántár), ка́нтер m (kánter), канта́рь (ru) m (kantárʹ), конта́рь (ru) m (kontárʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̀нта̄р m

  Roman: kàntār (sh) m

• Spanish: romana (es) f
• Swedish: besman (sv), betsman
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: kantar (tr)
• Ukrainian: бе́змін (uk) m (bézmin), ка́нтар m (kántar)

place where steel is stored and sold

• Italian: deposito metalli m, ferrovecchio (it) m