foot rule
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of foot rule
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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"There will be occasions were the 20 foot rule would be unconstitutional, but I'm not sure that would make the statute unconstitutional on its face," he says.
From US News ● Jan. 11, 2016
Even with instruments specially contrived for such a purpose - with a foot rule, a level, or a theodolite - it is not easy to be exact; it is easier, alas! to be inexact.
From Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
Exercise 3.—With a foot rule and a protractor measure a base line and the angles necessary to determine the length of the schoolroom.
From A Text-Book of Astronomy by George C. Comstock
They would, for instance, call a two foot rule one and a half or two and a half feet long.
From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Ira Mayhew
Those at the front of the lines should hold a ball or any substitute for passing backward over the head, such as a bean bag, eraser, foot rule, or book.
From Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft
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