Definition of Meteyard

1. n. A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure.

Definition of Meteyard

1. Noun. (obsolete) A yard, staff, or rod used as a measuring device. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Meteyard

1. metewand [n -S] - See also: metewand

Lexicographical Neighbors of Meteyard

meterless
meterologist
meterology
meters
meterstick
metersticks
metes
metes and bounds
metesthesiologist
metesthesiology
metestrus
metestruses
metethoheptazine
metewand
metewands
meteyard (current term)
meteyards
metflurazon-N-demethylase
metformin
metformins
meth
meth-
methacholine
methacholine chloride
methacholine compounds
methacrolein
methacrylaldehyde
methacrylate
methacrylate resin
methacrylates

Literary usage of Meteyard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"Coleridge refers to this imitation as an injury in a letter to Josiah Wedgwood (meteyard, 327-8) in June 1807, when he speaks of ' two volumes of poems," ..."

2. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1892)
"... meteyard—Sir T. Fowell Buxton—The " Bull and Bush." IN commencing this chapter we may observe that there are two ways by which the pedestrian can reach ..."

3. Reminiscences of a Country Journalist by Thomas Frost (1886)
"CHAPTER X. At a loose end again—My first editorship—A reminiscence of Miss meteyard—James Ham Friswell—George Frederick Pardon—A gigantic scheme that was ..."

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