steelyard

English

Alternative forms

• stilliard, stilyard

Etymology

steel +‎ yard (“enclosed area, rod”).

The sense of “place” is a calque of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch staalhof or (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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

• Arabic: قَبَّان m (qabbān), قَرَسْطُون m (qarasṭūn)
• Albanian: kandar (sq) m
• Basque: erromatar balantza, erromana
• Breton: krog-pouez m
• Dalmatian: stataira f
• Danish: bismervægt c
• Dutch: unster (nl) f
• Finnish: käsipuntari
• French: romaine (fr) f
• German: Laufgewichtswaage (de) f, römische Schnellwaage f
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• Greenlandic: bismeri
• Italian: stadera f
• Russian: безме́н (ru) m (bezmén)
• 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

place where steel is stored and sold

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