Met-gird

According to the Old English Dictionary:

-geard, -gyrd, e;

met-gird

f. A rod for measuring, a rod, perch :-- Metgeard pertica, Wrt. Voc. i. 38, 5. Riht is ðæt ne beo ǽnig metegyrd lengre ðonne óðer, L. I. P. 7; Th. ii. 314, 6. Ðonne is ðæs imbganges ealles þríó furlanges and þreó metgeurda, Chart. Th. 157, 27. Twegræ metgyrda brád, 232, 17. met-gird