balanceweight

English

Etymology

From balance +‎ weight.

Noun

balanceweight (plural balanceweights)

1. Alternative form of balance weight.
   • 1940 December, “Notes and News: Stroudley Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 666:

     [...] it settles the vexed question as to whether Stroudley or R. J. Billinton first introduced crescent-shaped balanceweights into the driving and coupled wheels of L.B. & S.C. locomotives.