At intervals the measurer went his round from bin to bin, accompanied by the booker, who entered first in his own book and then in the hopper's the number of bushels picked.
When the measurer came Mrs. Athelny, with a sigh of relief, stood up and stretched her arms: she had been sitting in the same position for many hours and was stiff.
As each bin was filled it was measured out in bushel baskets into a huge bag called a poke; and this the measurer and the pole-puller carried off between them and put on the waggon.
I knew the moment it left his hand that it would best any throw made, but I was astounded when the measurer announced over one hundred and eleven.
He watched the hammer through the air with bulging eyes, and when it landed, ran after, and argued with the measurer over an extra half-inch in a maddening fashion.
The measurerpulled the tape out carefully, and I saw his finger slide by the twenty-two mark, where they hesitated a moment.
The measurer announced twenty feet one-quarter inch without hesitation, for Seever always jumped high, and kept his heels together.
I waited until Duffy was about to make his last, and then walked down just in time to be by the side of the measurer when the hammer landed.
I watched as the measurer pulled out his tape, and was pleased enough when he gave the distance as twenty-one two.
But the moon-god was also a measurer of time and in this aspect was specially personified in Thoth.
The only time-measurer mentioned in the Bible is the dial of Ahaz, which will form the subject of a later chapter.
There is no mention of any mechanical time-measurer in the Old Testament, and in only one book is there mention in the English version of the word "hour.
Thermometer a measurer of heat; barometer, a measurer of the weight of the air; hygrometer, a measurer of moisture.
The pendulum stands at the top as a time measurer and was known to the ancients for measuring short periods of time just as musicians now use the metronome to get regular beats.
The official wind-measurer ran up the ladder to his dial, calculated rapidly and answered: "Freshening, sir.
Number is a phase of the kosmogonic movement, a measurer of the intellect and the establisher of the geometrism of space, answering tentatively to the numericity of pure being.
The pi proportion is, then, a register or measurer of the slow, measured approach of the manifesting kosmos to the standard of ultimate perfection.
There are therefore two general forms of the instrument which I submit as a measurer of electricity; one, in which both the gases of the water decomposed are collected (709.
The irregularities in the indications of the measurer proposed, arising from the solubility just referred to, are but small, and may be very nearly corrected by comparing the results of two or three experiments.
The resulting gas is the sum of the portions evolved at the two electrodes, and the instrument is better adapted than either of the former as a measurer of the quantity of voltaic electricity transmitted in ordinary cases.
The earliest horologe or hourmeasurer of which history makes mention is that called the Polos, and the Gnomon.
The word horologe or hour-measurer of course equally applied to the sun-dial, the clepsydra, and the clock, and this convertibility of terms makes it all the more difficult to trace the point at which the newer invention began.
It is as desirable a place and employment as a Measurer can expect; so let thy visions of me be rather pleasurable than otherwise.
Christopher laughed aloud, and the wood-measurer looked at him with amazement; for such particularity generally provoked a quarrel.
The wood-measurer measured the wood carefully, turning each log and placing it exactly, that there might not be a crevice anywhere.
The measurer or observer should, preferably, have the intimate knowledge that comes from personal experience of the work to be observed, although such a man is often difficult if not impossible to obtain.
Matteucci has endeavoured to show that nervous action is intimately connected with electric excitation, and that electricity may be made a measurer of nervous irritability.
Then why should the great god, the Measurer of Heaven and Earth, the King of Men, fear a white-faced stranger?
The result of his experiments was, that as high up as he could try by mixing water of different temperatures, the mercurial thermometer is an accurate measurer of the alterations of temperature.
Hence it happens that at high temperatures the expansion of mercury is no longer an accurate measurer of temperature.
Let us see how a Weston voltmeter, or measurer of electric pressure, is constructed.
Baron Dembowski, the most noted measurer of double stars, had no success as a discoverer, and confessed his inability to find new doubles.
The moon was the measurer of time; the first calendar was a lunar one, and time was marked by the movements of the moon and not by those of the sun.
The first month of the year was his, and he was the measurer of time, who had invented arithmetic and geometry, music and astronomy, architecture and letters.
The first time-measurer was probably a post stuck in the ground, the shadow of which, varying in length and direction, indicated the time of day, whenever the sun was not obscured by clouds.
The hour-glass was a time-measurer for many centuries in Europe, and all the ancient literatures abound in allusions to the rapid, unobserved, running away of its sands.
Duties of the Official Measurer An official measurer should be prepared to measure a yacht promptly at short notice.
A measurer should send his measurements to the secretary, Y.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "measurer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: assessor; gauge; instrument; measure; meter; surveyor; topographer
