Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building (generally of a public character) at or in which goods are weighed by suitable apparatus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
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Examples
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Will moved cautiously around the angle of the weigh-house just in time to see a figure leaving the side of the building and moving toward the breaker.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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The route to the mine, taken by Tommy and his chum crossed a network of tracks, led up to the weigh-house and so on into the breaker.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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After quite an extended search through the breaker the boys selected a small room on the ground floor, from which one window looked out on the half-deserted yard where the weigh-house stood.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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Evidently giving over the attempt to enter the mine at that time, the detective arose to his feet as soon as he gained the shelter of the weigh-house, and walked away, passing as he did so, within a few feet of where the boys were standing.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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The route to the mine taken by Tommy and his chum crossed a network of tracks, led up to the weigh-house and so on into the breaker.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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Will moved cautiously around the angle of the weigh-house just in time to see a figure leaving the side of the building and moving toward the breaker.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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There was a little side door in the breaker not far from the weigh-house, and it was toward this that the prowler was making his way.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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When Will and George came to the back of the weigh-house they heard some one moving about at the front.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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Evidently giving over the attempt to enter the mine at that time, the detective arose to his feet as soon as he gained the shelter of the weigh-house, and walked away, passing as he did so, within a few feet of where the boys were standing.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier V. T. Sherman
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After quite an extended search through the breaker the boys selected a small room on the ground floor, from which one window looked out on the half deserted yard where the weigh-house stood.
Boy Scouts in the Coal Caverns Archibald Lee Fletcher
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