rain-gauge

The instruments on the roof ranged from 398ft AGL rain-gauge to 454ft AGL..

Petaluma CA « Climate Audit 2007

A fourth planting shared the same hard fate, and then some of the knowing ones discovered the cause of the clouds being frightened away: our unlucky rain-gauge in the garden.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Some of the denizens of a dry area in Victoria find it hard to credit the simple facts recorded by my rain-gauge.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The first thing in the morning, we always wandered in our garden down the grassy paths among the dew; measured the rain-gauge; looked at the sky; watched the birds, of which a flight, chiefly flocks of finches, invariably travelled over the little terraces of fruit-trees towards the river, taking our garden on the way, and feeding there for a while.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

Especially did I like Lady POORE'S gently maternal attitude towards the many junior officers who figure very attractively in her pages (_e. g._ the jovial pic-nic party in the Blue Mountains, who slaked their thirst from the Government rain-gauge, and thereby disorganised the meteorological records of Jamaica).

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 18, 1917 Various

-- A rain-gauge of this kind requires protection against frost, as the freezing of the water would burst the tube.

Things To Make Archibald Williams

Barral and Way have made determinations of the quantity of ammonia carried down by the rain in each month of the year, the former using for this purpose the water collected in the rain-gauges of the Paris Observatory, and representing, therefore, a town atmosphere; the latter, that from a large rain-gauge at Rothamsted, at a distance from any town.

Elements of Agricultural Chemistry Thomas Anderson

The north wall of their house is plastered with thermometers; in the garden there are a rain-gauge, a sun-gauge and a wind-gauge; and the front hall contains a wealth of instruments to poke, tap and peer at, including one of those Heath Robinson contraptions which live in a glass case and make little tremulous lines with ink.

Try Anything Twice 1938

This is like a rain-gauge, boys, only it stands ten or twenty feet above the ground, to avoid surface drifting.

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

"No," the boy answered, "I haven't been out of the house since seven o'clock except just to my rain-gauge."

The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918