A children's toy consisting of a set of metal and plastic components for making mechanical models.
 Why don't you look at the Meccano set I bought you?
 Example sentencesExamples
-  We built the car with Meccano so it was fairly substantial.
 -  I was an only child, and I had a room to myself and I had Meccano and I had this world in which I did things.
 -  I did have Meccano and Lego, but actually I got a lot of fun out of empty cardboard boxes.
 -  Maybe we could start by putting Meccano and chemistry sets in every 10-year-old's Christmas stocking next month.
 -  So he went into his garden shed and produced the greatest boy's toy of all time: Meccano.