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From Middle Englishtrone(“a wooden beam or post used in public weighing, scale, balance”), from Anglo-Normantrone, tron (whence also Anglo-Latin trona), from Old Norsetrönur(“a frame or framework on which trunks of trees are laid to be cut by the saw”), plural of trana, trani(“trunk, snout, name of a ship or sword”, literally “crane”). Cognate with Danishtrane(“crane”).
(UK,dialect,Scotland,obsolete or historical) 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.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing. (See the entry for “trone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
⁊ in þe cumpas of þe ſeete.· weren foure ⁊ twentı ſmale ſeetıs ⁊ abouen þe troones foure ⁊ twentı eldere men ſıttynge. hılıd aboute wıþ whıte cloþıs.· ⁊ in þe heedıs of hem golden coꝛouns
And around the perimeter of the seat there were twenty-four small seats, and on those seats twenty-four elders sat, wearing white clothing and having golden crowns on their heads.