Chinese balance

noun

A type of steelyard.

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Meanings

nounChinese balance (plural Chinese balances)

plural Chinese balances

  1. A type of steelyard.
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    A modern explorer would have considered the contents of my basket rather inadequate for his work. There were, in addition to the Mass kit, an ordinary camera and films, a developing tank, special tropical developing powders, special film hardeners, and a Chinese balance to use in weighing out the chemicals.

    1929 September, Bernard F. Meyer, “Among the Yau”, in Catholic Missions, volume 6, number 9, page 10
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