Wiktionary
n. A ruler that measures one meter.
Usage examples of "meter stick".
I had only to measure myself in stocking feet, divide by nineteen, multiply by ten, and I had my meter stick.
Kareen grabbed the first weaponlike object that came to her hand, a metal meter stick, and circled in.
Kareen screeched at the maid, and tried to trip Muno by thrusting the meter stick between his knees.
The thing that sat on the throne was, even to alien human eyes accustomed to a different meter stick of beauty.
ONI never even guessed they had CLACs, so we don't have any meter stick at all for evaluating their LAC effectiveness.
If an object measures a meter long, and the meter stick is wrong, then that doesn't make the object a meter, now, does it.
And the meter stick, which he had dropped inside the sphere, lay on the floor at his feet.