Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A weighing-machine or balance with a flat scale or platform for the support of the object to be weighed.
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Examples
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He weighed wagons of wheat on a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring.
Main Street 1920
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He weighed wagons of wheat on a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Gary Nakamoto's installation, Intake and Output, consists of a chair on a platform-scale in front of a table; whoever sits in the chair is weighed precisely, to a hundredth of a pound.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Gary Nakamoto's installation, Intake and Output, consists of a chair on a platform-scale in front of a table; whoever sits in the chair is weighed precisely, to a hundredth of a pound.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Gary Nakamoto's installation, Intake and Output, consists of a chair on a platform-scale in front of a table; whoever sits in the chair is weighed precisely, to a hundredth of a pound.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Gary Nakamoto's installation, Intake and Output, consists of a chair on a platform-scale in front of a table; whoever sits in the chair is weighed precisely, to a hundredth of a pound.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Gary Nakamoto's installation, Intake and Output, consists of a chair on a platform-scale in front of a table; whoever sits in the chair is weighed precisely, to a hundredth of a pound.
Chicago Reader 2009
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a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring.
Main Street 2004
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