How to pronounce steelyard
American English pronunciation
STEEL-yard
- IPA
- /ˈstilˌjɑɹd/
- Syllables
- STEEL · yard (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
- Also said
- STEEL-yurd
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What steelyard means
A hanging scale with a long uneven arm and a sliding weight
In a sentence: The farmer hung the sack of potatoes from the steelyard and slid the weight until it balanced.
Where it comes from: It looks like steel plus yard. It may have come from the Steelyard, a trading place for metal whose name came from Dutch.
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