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
I might have done it by placing a foot rule on a table and taking that in the picture.
From The Ear in the Wall by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
A straight foot rule will do,—cost one cent.
From How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus Containing Complete Directions for Making All Kinds of Simple Apparatus for the Study of Elementary Electricity by Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John
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
Heaven help us!" he said, coming over to the spring, "I found him making for the shelter-house, armed with a foot rule!
From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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