platform scale


noun
  1. a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.

  • Also called platform balance.

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How to use platform scale in a sentence

  • Just behind him stood a platform scale on small wheels and with handles like a go-cart.

    City of Endless Night | Milo Hastings
  • He weighed wagons of wheat on a rough platform-scale, in the cracks of which the kernels sprouted every spring.

    Main Street | Sinclair Lewis