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stilliard

stilliard is the alternative form of steelyard.

Meaning of steelyard

Noun

steelyard (plural steelyards)

  1. A transportable balance with unequal arm lengths.
  2. A place where steel (and possibly other metals as well) is stored and sold.

Forms of stilliard

pluralstilliards

Origin of stilliard

Compare halliard/halyard.

Questions about stilliard

What is stilliard the alternative form of?
Stilliard is the alternative form of steelyard.

Words near stilliard in the dictionary

  1. Stilleys
  2. stillhead
  3. stillheads
  4. stillhouse
  5. stillhouses
  6. stilliard
  7. stilliards
  8. stillicide
  9. stillicides
  10. stillicidious
  11. stillicidium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stilliard (page history and authors); steelyard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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