英语词汇“weigh、house”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

weigh-house

释义

ˈweigh-house
[Cf. MLG. wegehûs, G. wagehaus.]
A public building to which commodities are brought to be weighed.
1438Cal. Patent Rolls, Hen. VI (1907) III. 192 [By the way which runs between] le Weyhous [of the said staple, and the said] Wolbrigge.1463Bury Wills (Camden) 35 Robert Basset, clerc of the Weyhous at London.1530Tindale Answ. More Wks. (1572) 278/2 Thirty or forty sturdy lubbers,..of which y⊇ weakest shall be as strong in the belly when he commeth vnto the manger, as the mightiest porter in y⊇ weyhouse.1598Stow Surv. 150 On the North side of this street [Cornhill]..one large house is called the Wey house, where marchandizes brought from beyond the seas, are to bee weighed at the Kinges Beame.1649W. Grey Chorogr. 17 Under the Town-Court is a common Weigh⁓house for all sorts of Commodities.1658Rec. Burgh Lanark (1893) 170 The baillies and counsell ordaines the wechts in the wiehous.1776G. Semple Building in Water 154 Public Stores and Weigh-houses.1818Scott Rob Roy xxxi, I might hae hung there till the day of judgment..wi' my head hinging down on the tae side, and my heels on the tother, like the yarn scales in the weigh-house.1829Heath Grocers' Comp. 186 The general Weighhouse and King's Beam were in Cornhill, upon the site of the present Sun-Court.1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 46 §107 A weigh-house for the use of the inhabitants..with the necessary weights, scales, and measures.1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 692/1 Every scale in the weigh-house is painted some distinguishing color.1907Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 9/2 A large motor-car..backed into a public weigh-house at Blairgowrie (Perthshire)... The building was damaged and the steelyard destroyed... The weighman was in the house at the time, but was uninjured.

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