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balance weight

British  

noun

  1. Also called: bobweightengineering a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft

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Both help a person balance weight across the knee.

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In a paper published Feb. 12 in the archaeological journal Praehistorische Zeitschrift, Dr. Terberger and five colleagues propose that the statuette found by the younger Mr. Borgwardt dated to the seventh century B.C. and was either a balance weight, an object of worship or a combination of both.

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