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There are occasional suggestions that the word steelyard is a corruption of statera (e.g., as stilliard via stalier + -d or -ard, as in halyard, lanyard), but this looks implausible: it seems pretty clearly associated with the place, and simply replaced a similar but distinct Latinate word.
- —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 04:20, 6 June 2016 (UTC)Reply