(balance) scales ②shoulder carrying pole ③steelyard

Libra (constellation)

two alternatives

Libra (7th zodiacal sign)

balance scale

to compare and contrast two alternatives ②to try to have it both ways

shoulder 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

spring balance

torsion balance

torsion balance