The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meteyard \Mete"yard`\, n. [AS. metgeard. See Mete to measure,
and Yard stick.]
A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A yard, staff, or rod used as a measuring device.
Usage examples of "meteyard".
Miss Meteyard, with great presence of mind, put the sweet counterfoils on a chair and sat on them, Miss Rossiter, clutching Mr.
Being Miss Meteyard, she first pounded on the partition and then went in and told them to shut up.
Why did Miss Meteyard hate him and why does Ingleby praise him with faint damns?
The former restriction bore hardly upon Miss Meteyard and the copy-department typists, whose cigarettes were, if not encouraged, at least winked at in the ordinary way by the management.
Ingleby admitted to having thrown his out of the window in a fit of temper, and Miss Meteyard said she thought she had one somewhere if Mr.
Tallboy and Miss Meteyard were standing, waiting for Harry to return and waft them to their sphere of toil above.
He appealed to Miss Meteyard, being troubled by an obscure feeling that men should not quarrel before ladies, and that it was somehow up to him to preserve the decencies by turning the whole thing into a joke.
Johnson had become a little stale, and Miss Meteyard received it coldly.
Miss Meteyard very much, there was a photograph of Lord Peter and of Death Bredon standing side by side.
The former restriction bore hardly upon Miss Meteyard and the copy-department typists, whose cigarettes were, if not encouraged, at least winked at in the ordinary way by the management.
It is the metal out of which your Kate Websters, your Sarah Malcolms, your Meteyards and Brownriggs fashion themselves.