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noun

Trones, Trone n.

A steelyard. (Prov. Eng.)

A form of weighing machine for heavy wares, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar. It is now mostly disused. (Scot.)

Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. (Scot.)

Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.

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"Trones" Quotes from Famous Books

... the laird of Assint has seized Montrose, And had him into Edinburgh town; And frae his body taken the head, And quartered him upon a trone. ...

— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott

... shall let you ken that there is a fair to be held at the muckle town of Langholme, for the space of aught days; wherein if any hustrin, custrin, land-louper, dukes-couper, or gang-y-gate swinger, shall breed any urdam, durdam, brabblement, or squabblement, he shall have his lugs tacked to the muckle trone, with a nail of twal-a-penny, until he down of his hobshanks and up with his mucle doubs, and pray to heaven neen times, Gold bles the king, and thrice the muckle Lord of Relton, pay a groat to me Jammey Ferguson, bailiff of the aforesaid manor. So ye heard my proclamation, and ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 • Various