ˈweigh-house
[Cf. MLG. wegehûs, G. wagehaus.]
A public building to which commodities are brought to be weighed.
| 1438 Cal. Patent Rolls, Hen. VI (1907) III. 192 [By the way which runs between] le Weyhous [of the said staple, and the said] Wolbrigge. 1463 Bury Wills (Camden) 35 Robert Basset, clerc of the Weyhous at London. 1530 Tindale Answ. More Wks. (1572) 278/2 Thirty or forty sturdy lubbers,..of which y⊇ weakest shall be as strong in the belly when he commeth vnto the manger, as the mightiest porter in y⊇ weyhouse. 1598 Stow Surv. 150 On the North side of this street [Cornhill]..one large house is called the Wey house, where marchandizes brought from beyond the seas, are to bee weighed at the Kinges Beame. 1649 W. Grey Chorogr. 17 Under the Town-Court is a common Weigh⁓house for all sorts of Commodities. 1658 Rec. Burgh Lanark (1893) 170 The baillies and counsell ordaines the wechts in the wiehous. 1776 G. Semple Building in Water 154 Public Stores and Weigh-houses. 1818 Scott Rob Roy xxxi, I might hae hung there till the day of judgment..wi' my head hinging down on the tae side, and my heels on the tother, like the yarn scales in the weigh-house. 1829 Heath Grocers' Comp. 186 The general Weighhouse and King's Beam were in Cornhill, upon the site of the present Sun-Court. 1833 Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 46 §107 A weigh-house for the use of the inhabitants..with the necessary weights, scales, and measures. 1883 Harper's Mag. Apr. 692/1 Every scale in the weigh-house is painted some distinguishing color. 1907 Daily Chron. 18 Oct. 9/2 A large motor-car..backed into a public weigh-house at Blairgowrie (Perthshire)... The building was damaged and the steelyard destroyed... The weighman was in the house at the time, but was uninjured. |