foot rule

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noun

a ruler one foot (30.48 centimeters) in length.

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Origin of foot rule

First recorded in 1720–30

Words nearby foot rule

foot rail, foot reflexology, footrest, footrope, foot rot, foot rule, foots, foot score, footscraper, footsie, footslog

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How to use foot rule in a sentence

I guess you don't realize how many times I've been over this hulk, from decks to keelson, with a mallet and a foot-rule.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)|Various
That would amount to saying that what is measured by a foot-rule is an extension, without defining what extension in itself is.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3|Plotinos (Plotinus)
In very truth, man is strangely presumptuous to desire to measure infinite greatness by the foot-rule of his infinite littleness.
Mysterious Psychic Forces|Camille Flammarion
Let the reader mark out a distance of four feet, and at one end place a foot-rule perpendicularly.
Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695|Various

Morality cannot be weighed in a balance or measured with a foot-rule.
The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe|Ernest Young

British Dictionary definitions for foot rule

foot rule

noun

a rigid measure, one foot in length

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