measuring : Idioms & Phrases

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Measuring faucet

  • a faucet which permits only a given quantity of liquid to pass each time it is opened, or one by means of which the liquid which passes can be measured.
Webster 1913

Measuring worm

  • noun small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae
    inchworm; looper.
WordNet
  • (Zoöl.), the larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.
Webster 1913