A balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring.
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Examples for "spring scale"
Examples for "spring scale"
1Take a spring scale registering at least eighty pounds and catch the hook under the string.
2The bass Miss Margie had caught carried the spring scale down to twelve and a quarter.
3We weighed her in installments with our spring scales; she registered three hundred and five pounds.
1Curious to see whether fact would bear out theory, I had myself weighed with a spring balance.
2Portland and I assisted at the capture, and the fish dragged the spring balance out by the roots.
3Further, let the spring balance be at the free end of the cord toward which the pulley runs.
4No further doubt could exist, and then Manuel, taking a spring balance (weighing up to 50 lbs.)
5A fine Salter's spring balance was hung up, and a bale suspended to the hook; the finger indicated 105 lbs.
6As each cow is milked, the milker hangs the pail on a spring balance and registers the exact weight on a blackboard.
7The pointer on the spring balance shows that the force required to balance the 4-pound load is but 2 pounds.
8Before taking his place in the operator's seat Tom started the motor, and by means of a spring balance tested the thrust of the propellers.
9A spring balance, fitted with a hook, held the article to be weighed; a pointer, revolving on a disc, indicated the weight of the article.
10Spring balance produced; trout weighed at 2 lb.
11(Principle of the spring balance.)
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