Definitions
a line that indicates a boundary
Word origin
From Middle English meten, from Old English metan (“to measure, mete out, mark off, compare, estimate; pass over, traverse”), from Proto-West Germanic *metan, from Proto-Germanic *metaną (“to measure”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to measure, consider”).
Used in a sentence
“Match'd with an agèd wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race”
“Every generation metes out substantially the same punishment to those who fall far below and those who rise high above its standards.”
“For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Old boundary marker”4 letters
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