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Trones   Listen
noun
Trones, Trone  n.  
1.
A steelyard. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
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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... 30th the Battalion moved to a place by Fricourt, and pitched a camp which it left two days later for a bivouac area by Bronfay Farm, near Carnoy. From this place the officers went forward on reconnaissance. They saw for the first time Bernafay and Trones Woods, which then had achieved great notoriety. To the neighbourhood of these woods the Battalion sent forward night working parties. Only with the greatest difficulty did these parties get to their rendezvous, and ...
— The Story of the "9th King's" in France • Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
... Wilhelmina was at the time but ten years of age. Until she attained her majority, August 31, 1898, a regency was exercised by the Queen-Dowager Emma. E. Lemonon, La succession au trone neerlandais, in Questions Diplomatiques et ...
— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg


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