Meter

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 64

mē′tėr, n. one who, or that which, measures, esp. an apparatus for recording automatically the quantity of a fluid pa ing through it, as in gas-meter , water-meter , .— v.t. to measure by a meter.— n. Mē′terage .— Dry meter , a gas-meter with bellows-like apparatus and no liquid. [ Metre .]