balanceweight

noun

Etymology

From balance + weight.

  1. inherited from *weǵʰ-
  2. inherited from *wihtiz
  3. inherited from wiht
  4. inherited from weight
  5. formed as balanceweight — “balance + weight

Definitions

  1. Alternative form of balance weight.

    • [...] it settles the vexed question as to whether Stroudley or R. J. Billinton first introduced crescent-shaped balanceweights into the driving and coupled wheels of L.B. & S.C. locomotives.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for balanceweight. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA