stilyard

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noun 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

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The first thing Finney did was to weight his saddle, the weight of which he knew, to see whether the stilyard was accurately adjusted.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854
A ladder was set upright against the end of the building outside, to one rong of which they made a stilyard fast.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854
Page 15 hitched over the hook of the stilyard, and I was seated in the loop.

Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Now In England 1854