"Steelyard" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... called Kumrawat in the northern Districts and Patbina (pat patti, sacking, and binna, to weave) in Chhattisgarh. A small colony of hemp-growers in the Betul District are known as Dangur, probably from the dang or wooden steelyard which they use for weighing hemp. Both the Kumrawats and Dangurs claim Rajput origin, and may be classed together. The caste of Barais or betel-vine growers have a subcaste called Kumrawat, and the Kumrawats ...
— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) • R.V. Russell
... the City for lending it. He further instanced the case of the City having lent King Henry III a sum of L100,000 rather than allow that monarch to pledge his crown and jewels to the merchants of the Steelyard, and it was truly repaid. To this the aldermen were not permitted to make any reply, but were sent away to advise together how the sum should ...
— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe |
