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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
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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