trone

American  

[trohn] / troʊn /

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. a large pair of scales, a spring balance, or other weighing device located in a town or marketplace to weigh goods and merchandise.

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Etymology

Origin of trone

1400–50; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Anglo-French ≪ Latin trūtina < Greek trȳtánē balance, scales

Example Sentences

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trone

And he seide that sat in the trone, lo I make alle thingis newe.

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Holt, Emily Sarah

Than seyde he thus, `Almighty Iove in trone, That wost of al this thing the soothfastnesse, 1080 Rewe on my sorwe, or do me deye sone, Or bring Criseyde and me fro this distresse.'

From Troilus and Criseyde by Chaucer, Geoffrey

De angels brought de tidings down, Just comin' from de trone.

From Army Life in a Black Regiment by Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Lugs, ears; tacked, nailed; trone, an old word, properly signifying the public weighing-machine, and sometimes used for the pillory.

From Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

The freikis on feildis That wight wapins weildis With shyning bright shieldis   At Titan in trone; Stiff speiris in reistis Ouer corseris crestis Are broke on their breistis:   The nicht is neir gone.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir