YARDSTICK

Yardstick

A yardstick is a straightedge used to physically measure lengths of up to a yard high. Yardsticks are flat wooden boards with markings at regular intervals.

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yardstick

Noun

  1. A measuring rod thirty-six inches long.
  2. A standard to which other measurements or comparisons are judged.


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