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Steelyard
Steelyard meaning
A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths. | A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.
Synonyms of Steelyard
Example sentences (3)
However, some of Holbein's other portraits of Steelyard merchants, for example that of Derich Born, concentrate on the naturalness of the face.
The first reference to it as the Steelyard (der Stahlhof) occurs in 1422.
Wilson, 184. For the guildhall of the Steelyard Holbein painted two monumental allegories, "The Triumph of Wealth" and "The Triumph of Poverty", both now lost.