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单词 mete-stick
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mete-stickn.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mete v.1, stick n.1
Etymology: < mete v.1 + stick n.1 Compare early modern Dutch meetstock (Dutch meetstok ), German Messstock ; and also Middle Low German mētestāke . Compare earlier meteyard n., metewand n., meterod n., metepole n. Compare met-stick n.
Nautical. Obsolete. rare.
A staff attached to a board, and used in the hold for measuring, and for levelling ballast.
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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) Mete-stick, a staff of a certain length, fixed on a broad board at right angles, in order to..determine the necessary height of a hold, and to level the ballast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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