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

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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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