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
The pound weight, the foot rule and the quart measure are very simple devices, but without them very little business could be done.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
Our belief in human nature is a foot rule, by which we may be accurately measured ourselves.
From Diana Tempest, Volume I (of 3) by Mary Cholmondeley
Let the children mark off the distances with a foot rule and chalk, going as high as twenty.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
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
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