pace stick

English

A Company Sergeant Major of the Welsh Guards uses his pace stick as a measure to pace out an exact distance between each Guardsman during Trooping of the Colour in London.

Noun

pace stick (plural pace sticks)

1. (military) A stick or implement used to measure paces.

Translations

a stick used to measure the correct length of pace

• Chinese: 步規 / 步规 (bùguī)
• Malay: tongkat penyukat

Further reading

• pace stick on Wikipedia.Wikipedia