balance weight
Britishnoun
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Both help a person balance weight across the knee.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 27, 2023
It can also be used as ballast to balance weight and provide stability in ships and aircraft.
From Salon • Jun. 17, 2023
The need to balance weight against battery storage means the flight will end every night on a knife edge.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2015
To deflect the flow in the conduit, a wrought-iron plate, provided with a balance weight, is dropped into a groove on the lower side.
From ASCE 1193: The Water-Works and Sewerage of Monterrey, N. L., Mexico The 4th article from the June, 1911, Volume LXXII, Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Paper No. 1193, Feb. 1, 1911. by Conway, George Robert Graham
The female figure on the dial, representing the moon, is always kept upright by a balance weight; the quarter-boys inside, who strike the quarters, are much later, having knee-breeches.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy
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