rain gauge

How to use rain gauge in a sentence

• Plu′viograph, a self-recording rain-gauge; Pluviom′eter, an instrument for measuring the amount of rain that falls.

  Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various

• The rain-gauge should be in the hands of every gardener and farmer.

  A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments | Henry Negretti

• Now and then a drizzle falls in these parts, but it keeps all damp only, and does not show in the rain-gauge.

  The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 | David Livingstone

• A very severe thunderstorm, with heavy rain for about five hours, occurred at night, amounting in the rain-gauge to 6.1 inches.

  The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume I (of 2) | Hazard Stevens

• We got a bad name through that same rain-gauge, and were regarded by many as a species of evil omen.

  A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries | David Livingstone