gas meter

noun

an apparatus for measuring and recording the amount of gas produced or consumed, especially such an apparatus metering the amount of household gas piped into a dwelling.

gas meter

First recorded in 1805–15

There are narrow, ten-foot-high bushes just beyond the gas meter.

Electric meters read in kilowatt hours, just as a water meter reads in gallons and a gas meter in cubic feet.

It will be observed that up to the present point the gas meter itself has played no part in the discussion.

Last night I happened to fall into conversation with a young Irishman who had come to read the gas-meter in my house.

He it was who invented a gas purifier, liquid gas meter, and other useful contrivances.

He put a penny into the slot of the gas-meter, and soon the flat was reeking with metallic fumes.

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