Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An official whose duty it was to weigh wool and receive the custom or toll termed tronage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, obsolete An
officer responsible forweighing wool .
Etymologies
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Latin. See tronage.
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Examples
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Prior to being used, the arms of the balance had to be exactly equal, and when the tronator was weighing, he had to remove his hands as soon as they were level.
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