1. (n.) One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
2. (n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
3. (n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.
4. (n.) Alt. of Metre
5. (n.) A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
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