kitchen scales BrE

On Monday nights, when you have to arrive early for a seat, the kitchen scales back.

A pair of kitchen scales will do that easily.

There was no approved school vendor, for example, that sold chef's whites or kitchen scales.

Big iron kitchen scales and a full set of weights aren't carried lightly.

Bread makers, toaster ovens and kitchen scales moved fast, the stores reported.

They probably mean egg timers and kitchen scales.

You are going to need a pair of kitchen scales or letter scales to weigh your food accurately.

And I weighed the packet on Alice's kitchen scales.

Kitchen scales!

Stick one of these new Italian kitchen scales on the roof of your car and you could stop traffic - all it needs is a siren.

Kitchen scales were used to measure the forces acting in the wind tunnel, stove pipes and curtains control the airflow and reduce the swirl.

Replies: There are kitchen scales, but money may be a factor for you--perhaps you could find one or two inexpensive ones and have everyone take turns.

'Kitchen scales,' Pertelope suggested.

Perhaps students could volunteer kitchen scales from home--I know I do not use mine very often--perhaps other people do not either.

Simply to be fair, Matern forces the character who in the watchmaker's place is determined to transport his kitchen scales to Cologne, to change in Leverkusen.

His recent acquisitions include La Vie Claire health foods, Terraillon kitchen scales, Kickers sports shoes and Look ski and bicycle parts.

By the 1970s, Terraillon S.A. made up over 80% of the bathroom and kitchen scales market and the company began to expand into the international market.

Stephanie unwound it like a cocoon, stroked and spread its spiky boughs, spent time and effort stabilising it in a bucket of earth with the weight from the kitchen scales.

He soon began manufacturing these kitchen scales in his workshop and in 1956, to cope with the rising demand, he incorporated his business and moved to a larger manufacturing facility.

It was set up like an assembly line, with kilo bricks of pure Colombian cocaine at one end of a waist-high table, flunkies lined up on both sides with kitchen scales, assorted scoops and spoons and stacks of empty plastic bags.

I picked up the awful weapon for a closer look and found it was indeed heavy (more than half a pound, we soon found, when Robbie weighed it on Dorothea's kitchen scales) and, according to letters stamped into it, had been made of stainless steel in Japan.

They manufactured a wide variety of products over the years, including stainless steel bull-nose rings and electric ranges, kitchen scales and vacuum bottles, window hardware and ice skates, mouse traps and percolators, can openers, cutlery, straight razors, aluminum cookware, and thousands of other products.

In between, the writer stumbles zigzag through the junkyard of his life, remembering women and drunks and drones and jockeys and one gambler so dedicated that, when the weather got too cold for the horses and greyhounds, he organized indoor races between cats handicapped with weights from the kitchen scales.