What is "size stick"

Size \Size\, n. [Abbrev. from assize. See Assize, and cf. Size glue.]

1. A settled quantity or allowance. See Assize. [Obs.] ``To scant my sizes.''
   --Shak.

2. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) An allowance of food and drink from the buttery, aside from the regular dinner at commons; -- corresponding to battel at Oxford.

3. Extent of superficies or volume; bulk; bigness; magnitude; as, the size of a tree or of a mast; the size of a ship or of a rock.

4. Figurative bulk; condition as to rank, ability, character, etc.; as, the office demands a man of larger size.

   Men of a less size and quality.
   --L'Estrange.

   The middling or lower size of people.
   --Swift.

5. A conventional relative measure of dimension, as for shoes, gloves, and other articles made up for sale.

6. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, -- used for ascertaining the size of pearls.
   --Knight.

   Size roll, a small piese of parchment added to a roll.

   Size stick, a measuring stick used by shoemakers for ascertaining the size of the foot.

   Syn: Dimension; bigness; largeness; greatness; magnitude.

n. A stick used by shoemakers to measure the size of the foot.

n. a mechanical measuring stick used by shoe fitters to measure the length and width of your foot