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noun Surveying.
an instrument consisting of a spirit level mounted under and parallel to a telescope, the latter being rigidly attached to its supports.
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Origin of dumpy level

First recorded in 1830–40

Words nearby dumpy level

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How to use dumpy level in a sentence

  • Wolsey now lodged at Esher, where his spirits soon fell—if we may be allowed an engineering phrase—to a very dumpy level.

    The Comic History Of England|Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett

British Dictionary definitions for dumpy level

dumpy level
noun
surveying a levelling instrument consisting of a horizontal telescope with various rotational arrangements and a spirit level
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