Home › Words › O › ouncilouncilouncil · noun — scales for weighing produce at a market.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyCompare ounce and auncel.nounScales for weighing produce at a markete.g.“He is our rate collector and ouncil weigh-master, and his son is our market clerk.” — 1877, Local Government and Taxation of Towns Inquiry Commission (Ireland), “Minutes of Evidence: Naas, March 19, 1877: William Samuel Gray”, in Report, Part III (Command papers), volume C-1787, page 9Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.scalepan 56% match — The pan of a scale, in or on which items to be weighed are placed. vs ouncil →scaleful 55% match — Enough to fill a scale (weighing device). vs ouncil →weighment 55% match — The weighing of goods. vs ouncil →digi 53% match — A scale (weighing device) with a digital readout. vs ouncil →pesage 52% match — A fee or toll paid for the weighing of merchandise. vs ouncil →weighman 51% match — A person whose occupation is weighing goods. vs ouncil →weighbridge 51% match — a platform, flush with the roadway, having a mechanism for weighing vehicles, wagons, livestock, etc. vs ouncil →checkweigh 51% match — To check the weight of the mined material and thus ensure the proper wages are paid. vs ouncil →