metwand

plural metwands

1. alternativeAlternative form of metewand.

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   ...[ Coke] was a skilful pleader; and to be a skilful pleader exactness of expression was essential. He was a skilful advocate; and to be a skilful advocate lucidity of expression was essential. He could arrest attention by a pointed expression — 'good pleading,' he said, 'is the heart-string of the common law'; by a fine phrase — 'the gladsome light of jurisprudence'; or by a striking metaphor — 'the laws of England are the golden metwand whereby all men's causes are justly and evenly measured.'

   a. 1634, Edward Coke, quoted in William S. Holdsworth, "Sir Edward Coke", Cambridge Law J, Cambridge, Vol. 5, No. 3, p. 338 (1935)