meterful

Noun

 * 1)  enough to fill a meter.
 * 2) * 1916, Stephen Leacock, Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy, London : J. Lane, the Bodley Head, page 185:
 * Had I gone across the street to the brilliant premises of the Cut Rate Pharmaceutical where they burn electric light by the meterful I should no sooner have said “tooth-brush,” than one of the ten clerks in white hospital jackets would have poured a glittering assortment over the counter—prophylactic, lactic and every other sort.
 * Had I gone across the street to the brilliant premises of the Cut Rate Pharmaceutical where they burn electric light by the meterful I should no sooner have said “tooth-brush,” than one of the ten clerks in white hospital jackets would have poured a glittering assortment over the counter—prophylactic, lactic and every other sort.