Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A measuring-staff, yardstick, etc.; any rod or stick used to measure length.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A measuring rod.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
measuring rod .
Etymologies
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mete + wand.
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Examples
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But he continually trips and falls flat over his metewand of classical propriety, his personages are abstractions, and fortunately neither his precepts nor his practice influenced any one of his greater coevals. [
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
qms commented on the word metewand
The kindly ones look for a way
To soothe me on my natal day:
“To tally each dawn’s
A foolish metewand!
You’re old as you feel,” so they say.
August 22, 2018
ruzuzu commented on the word metewand
hbd, qms!
August 22, 2018
qms commented on the word metewand
Ty, zuzu!
August 22, 2018