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.

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  • noun An instrument for measuring rainfall.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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Examples

  • 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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