| 释义 |
ˈweigh-bridge
[Cf. G. brückenwage.]
A platform scale, flush with the road, for weighing vehicles, cattle, etc.
1796R. Salmon in Repert. Arts & Manuf. VI. 74 Weigh⁓bridges or engines, with their apparatus, for the purpose of weighing carriages. 1825in Newton's Lond. Jrnl. Arts (1828) XIV. 253 Certain improvements on Weighing Machines which Machines he [the patentee] denominates German Weigh Bridges. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1194 The cart-steelyard or weigh-bridge. 1849F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers viii. (1851) 75 [The] trucks..are immediately drawn by horses first over a weighbridge. 1886Daily News 26 July 2/2 The heaviest lamb turned 169lb. on the weighbridge.
fig.a1834Coleridge Hints Th. Life (1848) 21 The positions of science must be tried..on the weigh-bridge of common opinion and vulgar usage. |