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

He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes.
Howards End|E. M. Forster
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
The stout editor of the Copper-Snake took a packet of greasy newspapers from the gas-meter.
The Red Room|August Strindberg

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

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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gas meter

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