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Weigh-house   Listen
noun
Weigh-house  n.  (pl. weigh-houses)  A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Weigh-house" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gouda The Great Church, Dort Utrecht On the Beach, Scheveningen Leyden The Turf Market, Haarlem St. Nicolas Church, Amsterdam Canal in the Jews' Quarter, Amsterdam Volendam Cheese Market, Alkmaar The Harbour Tower, Hoorn Market Place, Weigh-house, Hoorn The Dromedaris Tower, Enkhuisen Harlingen Kampen Arnheim ...
— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas

... Waddell, Cellardyke, for the value of L50 sterling; and further, he carried with him an accepted bill of John Fullerton in Causeyside, to the like extent, as a fund of credit for the goods he might buy; and William Hall, the third panel, was a poor workman in Edinburgh, commonly attending the weigh-house, who was carried along to take care of and fetch home the goods; that accordingly, as soon as they came to Anstruther, and put up their horses at James Wilson's, they went to a respectable man, Bailie Johnston, ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 • Alexander Leighton



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