meterert (meterer)

[ Be it in balede, uers, rime, or prose, He most torn and wend, metrely to close. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 6566. mete-rodt, n. [Early mod. E. meetrodde , metrod ; metel + rod .] A measuring-rod. The meetrodde that he hadde in his hande was syxe cubytes longe and a spanne. Bible of 1551, Ezek. xl. 5.