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单词 weighbridge
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weighbridgen.

Brit. /ˈweɪbrɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈweɪˌbrɪdʒ/
Etymology: Compare German brückenwage.
A platform scale, flush with the road, for weighing vehicles, cattle, etc.
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1796 R. Salmon in Repertory of Arts VI. 74 Weigh~bridges or engines, with their apparatus, for the purpose of weighing carriages.
1825 London Jrnl. Arts & Sci. 10 253 Certain improvements on Weighing Machines which Machines he [the patentee] denominates German Weigh Bridges.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm III. 1194 The cart-steelyard or weigh-bridge.
1849 F. B. Head Stokers & Pokers (1851) viii. 75 [The] trucks..are immediately drawn by horses first over a weighbridge.
1886 Daily News 26 July 2/2 The heaviest lamb turned 169lb. on the weighbridge.
figurative.a1839 S. T. Coleridge & J. Gillman Hints towards Theory of Life (1848) 21 The positions of science must be tried..on the weigh-bridge of common opinion and vulgar usage.
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