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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Trone \Trone\, Trones \Trones\, n. [LL. trona, fr. L. trutina a balance; cf. Gr. [?].] 1. A steelyard. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.] --Jamieson. {Trone stone}, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] {Trone weight}, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois. | |
