steleyerd (1490-91)
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steleyerd (1490-91)

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[gdw]

[FEW: ∅; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: ∅; TL: ∅; DEAF: ∅; DMF: ∅; TLF: ∅; OED:  steelyard n.1; MED: ∅; DMLBS: ∅]
 
M.E.

The association with steel becomes apparent in fifteenth-century English, and is the result of a mistranslation of German Stahl (‘sample, pattern’).

s.

1merch.toponymsteelyard, area in London where the merchants of the Hanse had their establishment (i.e. ‘Stahlhof’): 
( 1490-91 ) divers merchauntz estraungez de le steleyerd  ii 158
steelyng 
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