gas-meter

He says he'd even be happy if he can parlay his part-time work as a gas-meter reader into a new career as a gas-meter repairman.

Tarnished Gold 2007

It caused a peculiar clicking sound, as though he had something between a giggle and a gas-meter at work in his neck.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

I haven't paid you back for the gas-meter shilling, 'said Hallam.

Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

Nor would the gas-meter do, where there was probably no gas.

Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

When any part of an acetylene apparatus or a gas-meter freezes, notwithstanding the precautions specified in II., 7, it must be thawed only by pouring hot water into or over it; flames, burning fuel, or red - hot iron bars must not be used.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

A register of these revolutions is made by machinery similar to a gas-meter.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

To ascertain the exact cost of the light, as well as of the gas illumination which it replaced, a gas-meter was placed to measure the consumption of the gas through the jets affected; and also the carbons consumed by the electric illumination were noted.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

There are two types of gas-meter in common use, either of which may, without essential alteration, be employed for measuring the volume of acetylene passing through a pipe.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

Where, however, acetylene or other gas is flowing through pipes or apparatus there is a loss of energy, indicated by a falling off in the pressure due to friction, or to the performance of work, such as actuating a gas-meter.

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield

I was a gas-meter man and a collector for a Home for Lost Doggies, and I didn't get a thing to go on, except a servant in the top flat at the Battersea Bridge Road end of the row who said she thought she'd heard a bump on the roof one night.

Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923