rare. [f. L. via way + -METER.] A device for recording the number of miles traversed by a wheeled vehicle; a hodometer or cyclometer.
1831–3. Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VIII. 311/1, marg. Counting Machines for road carriages, or viameter.
1858. Mrs. Sinnett, trans. B. Möllhausen’s Diary, I. vi. 75. The viameter gave an accurate measurement of the number of miles passed, by counting the revolutions of the waggon wheel.
1850. Worcester. [Hence in later Dicts.]
