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present participle and gerund of mete examples
plural metings
The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out. quotations examples
We are far more apt to yawn than to weep as we make our way through this series of loosely connected incidents, of unmotivated actions, of contrived metings-out of justice.
1964, William K. Bottorff, Twayne's United States Authors Series, volume 56, page 72