Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A machine or an instrument designed to measure the quantity of rainfall. See
rain-gage .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Meteorol.) An instrument for measuring the rain that falls; a rain gauge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
instrument formeasuring rainfall .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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In the years 1845 and '6, from July to January, within a period of six months, _ten feet of rain_ was measured by an ombrometer, having fallen at Hong-Kong.
Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas W. Hastings Macaulay
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