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a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs etc. The thing to be weighed hangs from the short side of a beam; the long side has graduated notches for a standard weight.

A 19th-century steelyard crane

a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs etc. The thing to be weighed hangs from the short side of a beam; the long side has graduated notches for a standard weight.

Steelyard weighing device from the late nineteenth century. Minnesota Historical Society collections.

a simple balance for weighing foodstuffs etc. The thing to be weighed hangs from the short side of a beam; the long side has graduated notches for a standard weight.

Roman steelyard from Pompeii