bismar

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A kind of steelyard used in Orkney.

Word forms

bismar bismars

Etymology

From Danish bismer, from Middle Low German bisemer, via a Slavic language from Turkish batman (“a unit of weight”).

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