foot rule

noun

1. a ruler one foot (30.48 centimeters) in length.

foot rule

noun

1. a rigid measure, one foot in length

Word History and Origins

Origin of foot rule¹

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

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.

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That would amount to saying that what is measured by a foot-rule is an extension, without defining what extension in itself is.

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In very truth, man is strangely presumptuous to desire to measure infinite greatness by the foot-rule of his infinite littleness.

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Let the reader mark out a distance of four feet, and at one end place a foot-rule perpendicularly.

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Morality cannot be weighed in a balance or measured with a foot-rule.

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