trontronen.
/trɒn/, /trəʊn/, U.S. /trɔn/, /trɑn/, /troʊn/, Scottish English /trɔn/, /tron/ Scottish and northern dialect.
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a. (Chiefly Scottish) A weighing machine; a pair of scales or other machine for weighing merchandise; a public weighing apparatus in a city or (burgh) town; also called ‘the king's trone’. Now Historical.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus
tron1477
tron1825
balance1829
Danish balance1837
weigher1905
c1290 Fleta ii. xii. §15 Quod fideliter colligant..ulnas, tronas, stateras, et pondera cujuslibet generis, tam pro pane quam pro aliis rebus venalibus provisa et habita.
1365 Stat. David II c. 39 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1844) I. 139/1 Extitit ordinatum, quod sit trona ad lanas ponderandas in burgis Regiis, per singulos portus Regni.]
1477 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 141 Sic like gudis that suld be weyit to be vsit at the Ouer Bow, and a trone set thare.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxvi/1 The marchaunt may make his wolle To be weyen at the kyngis trone yf he will.
1609 J. Skene tr. Stat. David II in Regiam Majestatem 44 (see 1365 above) The Chalmerlane sall cause..mak ane Trone for weying of woll in all the Kings burghis.
1742 in J. Paterson Hist. Regality Musselburgh (1857) 82 Repair the cross and the trone in the town of Musselburgh.
1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. vi. viii. 654 The trone for weighing goods being established at the bottom of the tower, the Church obtained the name of the Trone Church.
a1850 J. Gray Introd. Arithm. (ed. 100) 12 The Tron Pound kept at Edinburgh is equal to 9622·67 Troy Grains; it varies, however, in different places and for different purposes.
1886 D. Masson Edinb. Sketches 29 Markets..each having its own ‘tron’ or weighing apparatus.
b. The post of this was used as a pillory, or place of public exposure and punishment of offenders.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [noun] > punishing by pillory or stocks > pillory or stocks > public weighing apparatus used as
tron1449
1449 Sc. Acts Jas. II, c. 9 (1814) II. 36/1 And fra þai [beggars] haf not to lefe aponne þat þar eris be nalyt to þe trone or to ane vthir tre and cuttit of and bannyst þe cuntre.
1515 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 156 He was adiugeit to be had to the trone and thair strikkin throw the hand and banist this towne.
1650 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 33 They ordain the said John Rob to be sett upon the Trone with a Paper upon his Head, bearing thir Words; (This John Rob is sett heir for being ane false Informer of Witnesses), and ordaines his Lugg to be nailed to the Trone be the Space of ane Hour.
1731 Gentleman's Mag. Mar. 123/2 He shall have his Lugs tacked to the muckle Trone with a Nail of twal a Penny.
c. Contextually, The place where the tron was set up; a marketplace, market; in quot. 1821 figurative.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place
cheapc1000
cheaping-placec1175
cheaping?c1225
marketc1275
marketstead1373
marketplace1389
market set1552
trona1572
cross1577
vent1580
mart1593
emptory1656
market space1800
market stance1864
sale-market1883
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 121 The Englismen seing no resistance, hurlled..cannounes up the calsay to the Butter-throne.
1622 (?a1513) W. Dunbar Poems (Reidpeth) (1998) I. 174 At ȝour Hie Croce, quhar gold and silk Sould be, thair is bot crudis and milk, And at ȝour Trone bot cokill and wilk.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii I'll..win the vogue at market, tron, or fair, For halesome, clean, cheap, and sufficient ware.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xxxvii. 300 Irville..is an abundant trone for widows and other single women.
1891 ‘H. Haliburton’ Ochil Idylls 65 At the very trons in touns It [snow]'s knee-deep lyin.
d. Short for tron weight n. at Compounds.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > a system or standard of weighing > specific systems or standards
troy weight1390
lying-weight1454
avoirdupoisc1485
Tower weight1545
tron weight1593
sterling weight1612
overweight1656
merchant weight1704
tron1801
sicca weight1833
1801 A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 429 1200 bundles of hay, of 4 pounds weight each..is..327 stone Trone on the Scotch acre.
2. (plural) northern dialect. A weighing-machine; a pair of scales, a steelyard or spring balance.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > equipment for weighing > [noun] > a weighing apparatus
tron1477
tron1825
balance1829
Danish balance1837
weigher1905
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Trones, a steel yard.
1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.) Go and borrow the trones to weigh the hay.
Compounds
tronman n. (also trone-man) see quot. 1808-25.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning house > [noun] > cleaning chimneys > one who > one who carries off soot swept from chimneys
tronman1808
1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Trone-men, the name given to those who carry off the soot sweeped from chimneys, because they had their station at the Trone, Edinburgh.
1896 O. Smeaton Allan Ramsay vii. 182 Tronmen with their bags of soot.
tron-pound n. (also trone-pound) the pound of tron weight, varying locally from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > pound > pound of specific substance or system
lead-pound13..
Tower pound1469
tron-pound1683
Easterling pound1821
1683 Repr. Advantages Manuf. Woollen-cloath 4 Wooll (not worth 8 sh. Scots the Trone-pound).
tron-stone n. (also trone-stone) (see quots.).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > stone (fourteen pounds) > in specific system
tron-stone1565
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 375 Fourtie thowsand troyne stane wecht.
1795 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. Trone-Stone, in Scotland, according to Sir John Skene, contains 19½ pounds.
1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) at Trone The later tron stone..contained 16 tron pounds, the tron pound being equivalent to 1·3747 lbs. avoirdupois.
tron weight n. (also trone weight) the standard of weight used at the tron.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > a system or standard of weighing > specific systems or standards
troy weight1390
lying-weight1454
avoirdupoisc1485
Tower weight1545
tron weight1593
sterling weight1612
overweight1656
merchant weight1704
tron1801
sicca weight1833
1593 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 815/1 Cum potestate crucem foralem cum lie trone et trone-wechtis habendi.
1618 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 587/2 That Weght called of old the Trone weght to be allvtterlie abolisched.
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 346 Cheese..sold by tron weight, having twenty-one ounces to the lb.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 58 150 to 200 stone of hay, trone weight, is carried by each two-horse cart, to..Perth and Dundee.
Derivatives
tron v. (also trone) (transitive) to weigh at the tron.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > ascertain the weight of [verb (transitive)]
weighc1000
aweighOE
peisea1382
poise1458
ponder?1518
pound1570
tron1609
perpenda1612
librate1623
scale1691
weight1734
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. 152 Tronars sould be challenged, that they keip not their office in troning..of wooll, bot they trone the samine to some men, and not to others.
1861 H. T. Riley tr. Liber Albus 124 That no foreign merchant or other shall sell or buy any wares that ought to be weighed or troned, except by our own beam or tron.
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