Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, UK, dialect A small drain.
- n. UK, dialect A steelyard.
- n. UK, dialect, Scotland, obsolete 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A throne.
- n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. A small drain.
- n. Prov. Eng. A steelyard.
- n. Scot. 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.
Etymologies
- Late Latin trona, from Latin trutina a balance. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“C'est pourkoi sur son bureau trone une tirelire en ferraille cochon fermée par un cadenas dans laquelle il met la monnaie qu'il lui arrive d'avoir sur lui pour differente raison!”
“Il trone sous les fesses du Bisounours qu'elle m'avait offert aussi!”
“Jacques, son fils, septieme du nom, et deuxieme en Angleterre, fut chasse de ses trois royaumes; et pour comble de malheur on contesta a son fils sa naissance; le fils ne tenta de remonter sur le trone de ces peres, que pour faire perir ses amis par des bourreaux; et nous avons vu le Prince Charles”
“Marie Stuart, sa petite fille, chassee, de son trone, fugitive en Angleterre, ayant langui dix-huit ans en prison, se vit condamnee a mort par des juges Anglais, et eut la tete tranchee.”
“Ben la spareil le pov ', on s'en fout de sa gueule puisque le trone c'est pas pour lui mais pour sa soeur!!”
“For Helge og Hroar måtte den eneste vej til deres fædrene trone gå gennem kamp; deraf opstod da sagnet on hævn over Frode.”
“Upponne the trone [58] I sette thee, helde thie crowne;”
“Theie parte yor trone [147], and sete at your ryghte honde.”
“And seyde, ` O lord, that set art in thy trone, 1175”
“At last, Mahommed, the Second, came to the trone, as the Sultan of Turkey.”
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