(balance) scales ②carrying pole ③thread take-up lever (on a sewing machine) ④spreader bar

Libra (constellation)

two alternatives

Libra (7th zodiacal sign)

balance scale

to weigh (one thing against another) ②to try to have it both ways

carrying pole

chemical balance

to try to have it both ways

to try to have it both ways

analytical balance

intrusive person

pressing the top of a pickle vat by hanging a weight on a staff, used as a lever (in Kyoto suguki pickle making)

(sake) brewed in wooden vats, squeezed out by weight on a pole

scales

a water level

to weigh on a scale ②to weigh up options

beam balance

torsion balance

torsion balance