gas meter

noun

an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.

Origin of gas meter

First recorded in 1805–15

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Examples from the Web for gas meter

Historical Examples of gas meter

Peter, you might pretend you've come to inspect the gas-meter or the milk or something.
Once a Week
Alan Alexander Milne
A man came there again just the other day, too, and said he wanted to read the gas-meter.
Tom Slade on a Transport
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
He said he came to read the gas-meter, so I took him down into the cellar and the gas-meter had been taken away.
Tom Slade on a Transport
Percy Keese Fitzhugh
A register of these revolutions is made by machinery similar to a gas-meter.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 17, No. 97, January, 1876
Various
It caused a peculiar clicking sound, as though he had something between a giggle and a gas-meter at work in his neck.
The History of Mr. Polly
H. G. Wells

British Dictionary definitions for gas meter

gas meter

noun

an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas passed through it

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