Put on scales women’s rowing team shortly (5)
I believe the answer is:
weigh
'put on scales' is the definition.
'women's rowing team shortly' is the wordplay.
'women' becomes 'w'.
'rowing team' becomes 'eight' (I've seen this in other clues).
'shortly' means to remove the last letter.
'eight' with its final letter removed is 'eigh'.
'w'+'eigh'='WEIGH'
(Other definitions for weigh that I've seen before include "Estimate the heaviness of" , "Quantify mass" , "Consider, measure" , "Put in the balance?" , "Find the heaviness of" .)