foot rule

I guess you don't realize how many times I've been over this hulk, from decks to keelson, with a mallet and a foot-rule.

That would amount to saying that what is measured by a foot-rule is an extension, without defining what extension in itself is.

In very truth, man is strangely presumptuous to desire to measure infinite greatness by the foot-rule of his infinite littleness.

Let the reader mark out a distance of four feet, and at one end place a foot-rule perpendicularly.

Morality cannot be weighed in a balance or measured with a foot-rule.