Meanings
plural ometers
- humorousA measuring instrument.
On the wall were hanging thermometers, barometers, and hydrometers, and every other sort of ometer, numberless, dusty, and mysterious; […]
1843, John Holmes Agnew, Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art2 more examples
Oh, that some one would invent an ometer which, hung over the heart and lungs, might decide when a man ought to stop brain work. The man who invented such an ometer would make a fortune for himself […]
1887, N. A. Shenstone, Anecdotes of Henry Ward Beecher, page 328We have thermometers to tell the heat and barometers to tell the air and 'ometers hung in the engine-room to tell the pressure of steam, and 'ometers to gauge and measure almost everything.
1900, Orations of American Orators
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