Medical Definition of Trones
1. 1. A steelyard. 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. Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois. Origin: LL. Trona, fr. L. Trutina a balance; cf. Gr. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Trones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Meanwhile Mametz Wood had been entirely cleared of the enemy, and with trones
Wood also practically in our possession we were in a position to undertake an ..."
2. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"The wood of trones was a thorn in the German flesh, ... During the days of the
9th and the 10th a violent conflict was waged around the trones Wood. ..."
3. The Battle of the Somme by John D Buchan (1917)
"On Saturday, 8th July, we made a lodgment in the Wood of trones, ... For the next
five days trones Wood was the hottest corner in the southern British ..."
4. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"The British had swept through Bazentin Wood and taken the Bazentin villages.
They held trones Wood and were in Delville and High Woods. ..."
5. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer (1917)
"In trones the Germans met attack with counterattack again and again. The British
got through to the east side of the woods, and in reply the Germans sent in ..."
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