Definition of "weighing-house" [weighing-house]

• Same as weigh-house. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The next morning he charged me to pick six hundred pounds of cotton and deliver it at the weighing-house at night, under penalty, for a failure, of one hundred lashes on my bare back with a rawhide."
• "When called from the field to the weighing-house I was kept waiting until all the other slaves had their cotton weighed."
• "Laura sat at the open window, pale and anxious, straining her eyes towards the weighing-house and the paddock, the little bit of enclosed ground where the horses were saddled."