Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Public weighing-scales maintained by a town for general use, as in weighing loads of hay.
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Examples
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On receipt of these tidings, the "big boy," -- he weighs three hundred pounds by the Louisville hay-scales, -- conceiving himself outnumbered, breaks up his camp, and retreats precipitately, abandoning or burning a large portion of his supplies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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The New York _Tribune_ described him as a small man "everywhere except on the hay-scales."
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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Sunbeams cannot be weighed on hay-scales, and gorgeously-colored bits of cloud cannot be caught in a crucible.
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Schliemann weighed on his own hay-scales -- and wanting everything in sight -- tipping the beam at part of a ton.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Elbert Hubbard 1885
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The wagon was weighed at our hay-scales before loading, and then the wagon and load together, with a net result for the manure of 4,400 lbs.
Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject Joseph Harris 1860
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It looked like the balance-box of a patent hay-scales.
The Maine Woods 1858
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The joke afforded infinite amusement to the ladies at the windows and some old people under the hay-scales.
Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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