'Dry meter' definitions:

Definition of 'Dry meter'

From: GCIDE
  • Meter \Me"ter\, n. [From Mete to measure.]
  • 1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. [1913 Webster]
  • Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying.
  • Wet meter, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it. [1913 Webster]