| 单词 | butter scale |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbutter scale butter scale n. (in singular and plural) a device used for weighing butter; (also, in singular) the pan or surface on which butter is placed in scales consisting of two pans and a beam. ΚΠ 1615 E. Sharpe Britaines Busse sig. Bv Wodden Butter-scales a paire. ?1801 Irish Agric. Mag. 1 No. 4. 357 The butter scales are then taken out of the salt water..and evenly balanced with butter. 1845 Christian Advocate & Jrnl. 17 Sept. 24/3 He then took a lump of the forfeited butter from the basket, and put it in a scale against a pound weight, and up flew the butter scale. 1849 Liverpool Mercury 26 Jan. 2/5 John Sinclair, provision dealer, 7, Wood-street, 1 dr. [=dram] copper under butter scale, £1. 2001 Financial Times 18 Aug. (Weekend FT section) p. iv/3 His uncle's farm shop used flat, fossilised remains of sea urchins as weights for the butter-scales. < as lemmas |
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