Home › Words › M › meterstickmeterstickmeterstick means A measuring rod one hundred centimeters (one meter) long.EtymologyFrom meter + stick.nounA measuring rod one hundred centimeters (one meter) long.e.g.“He must use his unit of length taken from his meterstick.” — 1977, Leonid Sokolow, A dual ether universe: introducing a new unified field theory, page 42:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).