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Steelyard
Steelyard Steel"yard, n. [So named from a place in London
called the Steelyard, which was a yard in which steel was
sold.]
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.
Meaning of Steelyard from wikipedia
- The
Steelyard, from the
Middle Low
German Stâlhof (sample yard), was the
kontor (foreign
trading post) of the
Hanseatic League in London, and
their main...
- A
steelyard balance,
steelyard, or
stilyard is a straight-beam
balance with arms of
unequal length. It
incorporates a
counterweight which slides along...
-
Steelyard Commons is a
shopping center in Cleveland, Ohio,
having opened in 2007. The
center gets its name for
having been
built on the site of the former...
-
Steelyard Blues is a 1973
American comedy crime film,
directed by Alan Myerson, and
starring Donald Sutherland, Jane
Fonda and
Peter Boyle. A
group of...
- Look up
steelyard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The
Steelyard was the
trading post of the
Hanseatic League in London.
Steelyard or
steel yard may...
-
Merchants of the
Steelyard was the
English name for the
merchants of the
Hanseatic League who
first settled in
London in 1250 at the
Steelyard on the river-side...
- and Livy's Ab Urbe
Condita (Book 5
Sections 34–49), the
Gauls provided steelyard balances and weights,
which were used to
measure the
amount of gold. The...
- The
Pohang Steel Yard is a
football stadium in Pohang,
South Korea. It is the home
stadium of
Pohang Steelers. The
stadium holds 17,443
spectators and...
- main
trading base (kontor) of
England in London,
called the
Stalhof or
Steelyard. It
remained until 1853, when the
Hanseatic cities of Lübeck,
Bremen and...
- was a
Hanseatic merchant, who
managed his family's
office at London's
Steelyard for at
least 12
years and is
noted for
having had his
portrait painted...
