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means land-measuring. The first geometrician was a ploughman pacing out his field. (Greek, ge, the earth; metron, a measure.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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