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

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 Mills, John

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 Streeter, John Williams

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 Roth, Edward

He employed a board, one end of which was attached to a spring balance, while the other end of the board rested upon a solid table.

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward

Q.--And are they always pressed down by a spring balance, and never by weights?

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.