spring balance

British  

noun

1. a device in which an object to be weighed is attached to the end of a helical spring, the extension of which indicates the weight of the object on a calibrated scale

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spring balance

The apparatus is very simple in principle, consisting of but five pieces of wood, an ordinary spring balance registering up to 40 lbs., and a couple of handles.

From Things To Make by Archibald Williams

But if the spring balance said the thing weighed five pounds how would you know if it was right?

From Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

Fasten a metal roller to a spring balance and observe its weight.

From General Science by Bertha M. Clark

As each cow is milked, the milker hangs the pail on a spring balance and registers the exact weight on a blackboard.

From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter

But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

From All Around the Moon by Edward Roth