| 单词 | two-foot rule |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwo-foot rule 2. Measuring two feet; two feet long, wide, or thick. two-foot rule, a measuring rule two feet long. So two-foot-wide adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > [adjective] > two, etc., feet long or wide bipedalc1420 footed1568 septipedal1606 twelve-footed1611 septempedal1656 two-foot1664 six-foot1681 fourteen-foot1890 two-foot-wide1891 the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring length > graduated strip of wood, etc. rule1340 ruler1530 measure1555 scale1607 foot-rule1662 two-foot rule1664 joint-rule1680 inch-rule1850 inch-measure1851 stationer's rule1866 contraction-rule1874 measure-strip1887 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 132 A two-foot Trout. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. vii. 129 If there be odd Inches, they measure them with the Two-foot Rule. 1855 J. Phillips Man. Geol. 193 Two-foot coal. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 127 Squeezed in between the two-foot-wide pavement and the centre of the roadway..was a row of canvas booths. 1903 Heart of Heretic xx. 152 We measure Him [God] by our little two-foot rule. < as lemmas |
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