Crossword clues for meterstick
WordNet
meterstick
n. a rule one meter long (usually marked off in centimeters and millimeters) [syn: metrestick]
Usage examples of "meterstick".
The People had nothing like them, and the lack of any sort of comparative meterstick bothered him.
The moment he reached the top of this ridge he could see, straight ahead and distant, an ebony meterstick laid across the far edge of the golden sky.
No one had ever attempted an ambush like it, and so no one had any kind of meterstick to estimate the carnage such an attack might wreak.
Bozeman wore a green velvet robe and carried a meterstick plated with one of the noble metals to give it a dull, eternal sheen.
By any meterstick, no admiral in history - not just human history, but anyone's - had ever wreaked such one-sided havoc on a foe.